{"product_id":"oranges-cloves-st-nicholas","title":"Oranges and Cloves: St Nicholas Gift Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA St Nicholas gift in orange and clove: a townhouse oil burner on a felt star, cinnamon and orange oil, cinnamon tealights, orange soap hearts and a spiced tea with cloves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the evening of 5 December, children in Germany clean their boots and stand them by the door; by the morning of St Nicholas Day they are filled with mandarins, nuts and something sweet. This is the grown-up version: a small grey house glowing on the hall table, a smell of orange and warm spice, and a boot filled for someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA small ritual\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the evening of 5 December, stand the little house on its felt star in the hall, fill the dish with water and add a few drops of the cinnamon and orange oil.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight a tealight in the base and watch the windows come on. Then fill a clean boot for someone with the soap hearts, the tea and a mandarin, and leave it by their door.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeep water in the dish and the house clear of coats and curtains, and put the flame out when you leave the hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA grey ceramic oil burner shaped as a townhouse, 10 × 7 cm, whose windows glow when the tealight is lit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA six-pointed star of grey, charcoal and cream wool felt balls, 27 cm across, for the burner to stand on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix cinnamon-scented tealights, each burning up to four hours, made in Poland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCinnamon and orange fragrance oil, 10 ml, made in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 heart-shaped guest soaps in orange and warm ginger, about 20 g each, made in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 50 g tin of loose black tea with orange peel, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom and black pepper; the tin names the blend 'Black Magic'.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces arrive together in one parcel. They are not gift-wrapped. Let the burner cool before you move it or empty the dish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Golden Legend, the 13th-century book of saints' lives, Nicholas of Myra throws a bag of gold through a poor man's window at night, three times, one for each daughter's dowry. The three gold balls he holds in his pictures are those bags.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHAMTAM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67595388420410,"sku":"SHB-26FSA-04","price":45.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/8307\/0266\/files\/bundle-st-nicholas-oranges-and-cloves-square.jpg?v=1790658499","url":"https:\/\/shamtam.com\/products\/oranges-cloves-st-nicholas","provider":"SHAMTAM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}