My husband looks at me, "What are you doing?"
"Poking cloves into an orange."
"Why?"
"It smells good. Didn't your Mom ever do that?"
"No." Shakes head and walks away.
Surely she must have. She is one of the more crafty people I know. This is an old Colonial custom used to freshen a room, or give as a small gift. They are beautiful ornaments or displayed in a bowl.
I remember making them with my Mom (though I don't recall rolling them in all the preservative spices and powders the way they tell you to now). Mine is on the kitchen table. I am pretty sure he shakes his head at it every time he walks by. "Why?"
Why not?
Your pictures are pretty. I remember using more cloves though. Sometime after Christmas just past, I remembered these pomanders and thought I should have made one..... I guess you were channeling to me. Love you. Mom
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