APPLE POTPOURRI

You will need:

• 1 large apple
• 2 teaspoons grated nutmeg
• 1 cup 1-inch cinnamon stick
• cinnamon oil
• 1/2 cup red rosehips
• apple-spice oil

First, prepare the apple slices. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon of grated nutmeg onto a metal pie pan. Cut apple into quarters, remove core, slice into thin pieces. Now lay these pieces on the pie pan, sprinkle with remaining nutmeg and dry until leathery. Any source of low, dry heat will do: the mantel over a wood-stove, the top of a radiator, or an oven preheated to 150°F., then the heat turned off. In about two days the slices will be dry. Meantime, put cinnamon stick in a quart jar and drop 7 drops
cinnamon oil on it. Allow to rest for a day. Then put red rosehips in the jar, treat them to 12 drops  apple-spice oil and shake well. Now add the apple slices dried with nutmeg and shake the whole thing together. This potpourri smells heavenly as soon as it
is blended, and it improves even more with aging.