Sheila Lukins, Julee Rosso

Delicious Scents

Appears in
top 1000The New Basics Cookbook
The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

  • About
The scent in your home makes an important first impression. It’s wonderful to be greeted by the smell of dinner cooking, but if all the food has been prepared ahead, you can plan the scent that will greet your guests.
  • In winter, keep a small pan of apple juice with cloves and cinnamon simmering on the back burner.
  • Place a bouquet of fresh herbs near the front door. Try mint in summer, for its refreshing scent, and rosemary in winter, for the aroma of pine.
  • Put potpourri in small dishes and place them all around the house. Put some in a metal container on top of the radiator, too.
  • Toss orange and lemon peels, cloves, cinnamon sticks, pine boughs, and cones into the fire.
  • Burn fruitwood in the fireplace for a delicious scent.
  • Place small bouquets of fragrant flowers throughout the party rooms. Try roses, jasmine, lilacs, wisteria, hyacinths, and gardenias.