The Best Christmas Stove Top Simmer Recipes

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I want to share some of the best Christmas stove top simmer recipes with you. These are great to put in pretty packaging and give as gifts or simmer yourself to add some natural fragrance to your home this holiday season.

What is a Stove Top Simmer?

Stove top simmers or Stove top Potpourri are a collection of dried spices, herbs, or other aromatics. They slowly simmer in a pot with water on low heat. They give off the perfect amount of scent.

Simmers are wonderful for people who have scent allergies. These are 100% all natural, made with real ingredients, there are no synthetic fragrances.

What items can be used in stove top simmers?

So many different spices, herbs and aromatics can be use. I will give an example of some I have use but I’m sure there are many more.

• Rosemary
• Pine
• Thyme
• Cloves
• Cinnamon
• Allspice
• Nutmeg
• Cranberry
• Coffee Beans
• Cardamom Seeds
• Lavender
• Chamomile
• Rose Petals
• Dried citrus
• Dried Apple
• Plus many many more!

How to Package Stove Top Simmers for Gift Giving

Stove top simmers are best packaged in clear cellophane bags tied together with some pretty Christmas ribbon or twine. Glass jars also are great to package simmers in. Basic mason jars make simmers have a rustic old fashioned Christmas feel. Decorate jars with ribbon a nice printable instruction tag. (I have included a free tags for you to download below)

Christmas Stove Top Simmer Recipes

These recipes are wonderful to simmer throughout the holiday season and even throughout the winter. Having a pot on the stove simmering on low has the perfect amount of scent without the toxic fragrances of some candles. Some of the ingredients listed are in the dried form, fresh could be used as well. If using fresh the simmers would just have to be used right away.

Old Fashioned Christmas

• Cinnamon sticks
• Star Anise
• Dried Cranberry
• Dried Rosemary
• Dried Orange Slices
• Whole Clove

O Christmas Tree

• Cinnamon Sticks
• Dried Rosemary
• Dried Orange Slices
• Dried Lemon Slices
• Whole Cardamom
• Dried Cranberry
• Allspice
• Pine Sprigs

Night Before Christmas

• Dried Chamomile
• Dried Rose Petals
• Dried Rosemary
• Cinnamon Sticks
• Dried Lavender
• Whole Cardamom

Instructions on how to use Stove Top Simmers

• Pour your simmers into a pot and add 2 cups of water.
• Turn stove on medium – high heat, just until the water starts to boil then turn down to low.
• Simmer on low, and enjoy the fragrance
• Add water as needed
• When done simmering, you can either discard the contents or place in a jar and save to use the next day.

Where to find the ingredients for the Stove Top Simmers

When it comes to finding the ingredients for the simmers, I find a lot of of the spices and herbs can be found at your local grocery store.

If you are in Canada, the Bulk Barn has wholesale of a lot if the ingredients.

If you have a dehydrator you can dehydrate a lot of the items yourself. I have dried oranges, lemons, and rosemary in my dehydrator.

Oranges, lemons and other citrus could also be dried in the oven, on a low heat.

I have included some Amazon links as well, I have ordered lavender, rose petals, chamomile all from Amazon.

Christmas Stove Top Simmers Tags

I have designed a couple tags to use for your simmers. Simply print out on your home printer. Card stock paper is best. Punch a hole and add some twine. These tags give the receiver of your simmers instructions on how to use them.

Just click the button below and they will be ready for you