Recreating the Sweet Smell of Christmas
The heavenly scent of gingerbread cookies helps define this time of year.
As a child, I had a favorite Christmas book: “The Sweet Smell of Christmas” – a scratch-and-sniff story about all the happenings, and smells, in a little bear’s home as Christmas approaches. There’s the fragrant pine of the Christmas tree, the minty zing of candy canes, and the sweet-citrusy scent of an orange found in his stocking, to name a few. It was a reminder of all the wonderful smells that help define this time of year, and some of the treats that appear exclusively in December. In our house, the one treat we always make is gingerbread people. This is as much a craft as it is a baking endeavor, since there’s virtually no limit to the fashion statements gingerbread folk might make. Over the years, ours have sported top hats, bow …
