Christmas Simmer Pot Recipes

  All recipes require a slow cooker or a large saucepan filled with fresh water.  

Recipe 1: Traditional Christmas Recipe

 

• Peels from 1-2 oranges or 4 orange slices
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 2 tsp whole cloves
• 2 Star Anise
• 3 evergreen branches, pine needles, branches from pine trees, or 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
• 1 Whole nutmeg chopped
• 1 cup cranberries
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 

Recipe 2: Juniper Citrus Christmas Simmering Pot Recipe

 

• 3-4 slices of orange
• 2-3 lemon peels or ½ lemon cut into quarters, with the peel on
• 1 tablespoon dried juniper berries

Recipe 3: Cinnamon Sticks, Clove, Citrus Christmas Simmer Pot Recipe

 

• orange slices
• lemon slices
• cinnamon sticks
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 1 tsp. cloves
• a handful of cranberries
• a handful of fresh pine needles

 

 

Recipe 4: Lemon, Cinnamon Sticks & Orange Simmer Pot

 

• Peel from 1 lemon or lemon slices
• Peel from 1 orange or orange slices
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 2 Tablespoons whole cloves

 

 

Recipe 5: Winter Months Simmering Potpourri Recipe

 

• 1 sliced apple peel on
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 3 whole cloves
• 1 bunch of fresh rosemary sprigs

 

Recipe 6:   Spicy Winter Simmer Pot

 

• 4 slices orange sliced with peel  
• 1 small granny smith apple sliced with peel on
• 1 lemon slice with the rind on
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 3 Star Anise
• 2 rosemary sprigs

 

Recipe 7:   Fesh Winter Simmer Pot

 

• 1/4 grapefruit sliced peel on
• 1 apple sliced
• 1/2 lemon sliced with peel on  
• 1 tbsp. ground ginger
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 1 cup fresh cranberries
• 3 fresh pine branches or a bunch of fresh pine needles or fresh rosemary