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bonjon
Raleigh, NC
December 10, 2007
03:34 PM Post #4281198
| I thought you had to use ground dried orris root to help with the preservative process, mixed in with the spices you rolled in. I didn't see anything about that here. |
roybird
Santa Fe, NM
December 10, 2007
11:47 PM Post #4282723
| I think orris root is used in potpourri. Maybe not with pomanders. Nice article and fun idea for the season. |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
December 11, 2007
01:09 PM Post #4284275
| I saw references to orris root but I also saw ones that said don't bother using it. No one I know of has ever bothered and it's never seemed worth the trouble. When I was growing up, I never even knew you were supposed to roll them in spices - we never did! The cloves are really an extremely effective preservative. x, Carrie
Edited to add I don't think you have to do anything any particular way! At least not with pomander balls. x, C
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roybird
Santa Fe, NM
December 11, 2007
07:56 PM Post #4285447
| And that's one thing I liked about the article! Lots of room for experimentation and inspiration. |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
December 12, 2007
07:34 PM Post #4288945
| That's how I live... more or less! I mean I usually have a desired end result, but the journey is more than half the fun, in my way of looking at things. You can't really garden according to a recipe. x, C |
Liquidambar2
Mount Vernon, KY
December 03, 2009
02:39 AM Post #7330722
| Orris root it there because it makes smells hang around a long time, I think they call that a fixative. There are other things that can be used as a fixative, mostly things that smell like musk for some reaon, for instance whale vomit????? That is true, used in a lot of expensive perfumes.
I wonder who and how they figure on that one?
Do you put elmers glue on the oranger before you roll it???/ |
critterologist
Frederick, MD
(Zone 6b)
December 03, 2009
11:50 AM Post #7331423
| I'm also wondering about how the spices stick to the ball... or does enough just cling to the nooks & crannies created by the cloves? |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
December 03, 2009
04:04 PM Post #7332015
| Jill is right, the cloves - if you do them close together as I do - are very sticky like Velcro, and the spices stick in all the nooks and crannies. However the cloves are EXTREMELY aromatic all by themselves; see Sharon's article The Clove Tree for more about cloves. I don't always roll mine in other spices, although I did with the demo I made for this article.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2132/
Thanks for your thoughtful comments! |
