Help with fragrance

[kwormann]

Hello all http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

Our house is for sale, and Id like to have something yummy smelling cooking when people come through. Here is the problem: Last Sat, we had to be gone for 3 hours for all showings, so baking is out. Any ideas for something with cinnamon for the crock pot? Tha way it is supposed to be long and it wont burn. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Im not sure beans would smell right.

[Lisa W]

At Christmas time we often put a little pot on the stove with water, cinnamon sticks and cloves. The house always smells wonderful! You could have it simmering while you're home and then turn it off when you leave. The smell should stay for a long time. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

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[emilycat]

Kim,

There was a thread about two or three months ago that had some wonderful (and heavenly smelling http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif ) ideas on it... here it is:
http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/Forum1/HTML/002206.html

[goldilocks]

This is what I have done: Through some bad apples, peel from one orange and water into a stockpot. From there add mulled spices, if you don't have use cinammon (ground or sticks), cloves, nutmeg, anything that really smells good. Then simmer. The scent will last a while so you can do it in the morning and then take it off the heat before you leave. Additionally, you can put spiced apple cider in a crockpot on low, use a spice ball filled with mulled spices. This can be left on all day on low if you wish. This is what I did during the holidays, and the house smelled great. Other ideas: lots of candles and those environmental rings that you put around your light bulb with a scented oil. When you turn the lights on, it heats up the oil and smells the whole house. Look for them at Crabtree and Evelyn. I hope these ideas help you. Good Luck!

[kwormann]

Thanks so much. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

Kim

[Vanessa]

Simmering spices is great. I saw a little croclpot for simmering spices either in Target or Kmart recently. Have you tried those Glade plug ins. I got some that I can also plug other things in. Now they sell them for large rooms too. I like the apple cinnamon scent the best. Good luck selling the house!
Note: If you have an open house you might want to bake cookies or something earlier the smell does last and you can have a plate with cookies sitting on the table.

[Beth]

Kim. I don't remember if I posted on that earlier thread or not, and I don't have the energy to go look. When we had our house on the market, I put spiced tea or cider in the coffee pot and left it on (our coffee maker would turn itself off after a while). Same idea, but a little less obvious than having a crockpot out or a pot on the stove. Best of luck!

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[MPHenderson]

I read in a real estate column in the newspaper that the smell of baking bread was supposed to be a big plus. When my sis was showing her house, she borrowed my bread machine. She would program it to start at the right time so that the house would smell of freshly baked bread when the realtor would be showing the house. Don't know if it made a difference or not, but her house sold pretty quickly ... and she had lots of fresh bread! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

Melissa

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[Laura Wick]

Melissa, I've done the bread machine thing, too. it "worked" twice for me. Do you program it so that the last 20 minutes or so of baking time remains when they are due to arrive?

[Kelli Kerrigan]

Try this month's Cinnamon Beef noodles. I made it on Sunday and the house smelled wonderful. (it was real yummy too!)

[laden]

I have a really simple thing I do...Years ago I bought this thing called a "light bulb ring". It was a round ring made out of felt-like material and you put cinnamon oil on it. It sits on top of a three-way lightbult turned to the lowest setting. You can buy many different scents of oil, but cinnamon is my favorite. (You can also put a drop of cinnamon oil on a cold light bulb and turn it on low and it does the same thing, but doesn't last quite as long)

The whole house smells wonderful and no chance of the pot boiling dry with this method.

[luv2cook]

i got this house spray from Beauty Control that lasts a long time...

[MPHenderson]

Right, Laura...but I didn't worry about being too precise since the fragance remains in the air. Melissa

Originally posted by Laura B. Wick:
Melissa, I've done the bread machine thing, too. it "worked" twice for me. Do you program it so that the last 20 minutes or so of baking time remains when they are due to arrive?