WotD: pomander (ball)

[muckefuck]

1. der Bisamapfel
2. de pomander, de reukbal
3. la poma de olor
4. la poma d'olor
5. le pomander
6. y berbelen
8. pomander
9. 향료알 (香料알)
10. 香丸 xiāngwán

Notes: I don't know if I've made one of these since grade school, when I bloody-mindedly set out to cover then entire surface of the orange with cloves. (I was the kind of child which didn't leave the smallest bit of bread bare when spreading something on it.) That experience nearly put me off pomander balls for life, but while monshu was writing holiday cards, I was struck by a powerful desire to make the room smell more like Christmas. I would've preferred something more fragrant than the navel oranges available from the neighbourhood market, but I think a thick skin works better and good luck finding anything like a Seville there! It only took me a bit over an hour (not including time taken off for dinner) to whip out three of these babies, so evidently I'm better at not letting the good be the enemy of the perfect than I was in those days.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Cloven oranges were a common pick-up method when I was (briefly) in the SCA in the late 80s.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

So that's where keyne got the idea!

[anicca-anicca.livejournal.com]

Me, I haven't heard Bisamapfel, wouldn't know what it is.
If it's oranges with cloves stuck on the skin, I've seen them, but I think I'd just call them "clove-studded oranges", "Nelkenorangen", "nelkengespickte Orangen" or something like that.
I'll ask my Xmas-fiend family members if it's just dumb me.

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

seconded.

Ein Bisamapfel ist sowas hier:

Das Wort hat rein historische Bedeutung, im 21. Jahrhundert benutzt niemand so ein Ding. ;-)

"Nelkengespickte Orange" sounds fine.

it must be in the air....

[(Anonymous)]

It really must be in the air, or we're sharing a brain. I just made four pomander balls to sell (I hope) at a craft fair in a few weeks. I've learned that to ease the piercing, and the patterning, a bamboo skewer or knitting needle works wonders. Or perhaps the pound of cloves available at the Patel Brothers for cheap means less sturdy cloves. Gwyn

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

El concepto no existe aquí. De cualquier manera, apple = manzana :)