I saw this idea some time ago and I thought what a lovely gift it was. I would be thrilled if someone gave me something like this. It's inexpensive and the possibilities are endless. You really can play around with this. This particular one is for scones but I saw one for a mixed vegetable soup which contained all kinds of dried ingredients, like split peas, red lentils, vermicelli, dried onions etc. all layered up. It looked great.
This particular tutorial comes courtesy of Whimsey Love
Apricot Scone Mix
INGREDIENTS:
-2 cups flour
-1/2 cup vanilla or normal sugar
-1/4 cup non-fat dry milk powder
-2 tsp baking powder
-1 tsp dried lemon peel
-1/4 tsp salt
-1/3 cup shortening/butter/palm oil (shortening is basically hydrogenated fat)
-1 cup dried apricots
INSTRUCTIONS:
Mix altogether and place in the jar! Et voila!
You can attach a circle piece of vintage fabric to the top of my jar with a rubber band. Then, to hide the band, loop a piece of twine a few times around the top. 
Print out the instructions for baking onto a gift tag. Attach it to the jar & you're done! It's ready for keeping OR gifting!
Now who could not be happy with a delightful gift like this? :-) If you come up with other ideas for these jars, please share them. I'd love to make loads of these!
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I saw some other variations in my search which were more dried ingredients for soups etc and I think they would have a much longer shelf life. They were layered, like split peas, then lentils etc. and looked really pretty.
