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Smoking Bishop

The Victorian mulled wine punch from Dickens—port red wine and roasted oranges

Favorite

⚠️ Contains: 🍷 Sulfites

📋 Batch🥃 Punch Bowl🧊 none🍋 roasted orange studded with cloves, cinnamon sticks👅 {warm,spiced,rich,festive}

📊 Servings:1

Ingredients

5oranges
30whole cloves
2 bottlesred wine(fruity like Merlot)
1 bottleruby port
¾ cupbrown sugar
1 tspground cinnamon
¼ tspfreshly grated nutmeg
🍋roasted orange studded with cloves, cinnamon sticks(garnish)

🔧 Tools

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Instructions

Stud oranges with cloves about 6 per orange
Roast oranges at 350F until browned about 1 hour
Quarter roasted oranges and place in large pot
Add wine port sugar and spices
Heat gently do not boil for 30 minutes
Strain into punch bowl
Serve warm in mugs

📜 History

Smoking Bishop achieved immortality when Ebenezer Scrooge offers it to Bob Cratchit at the end of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. The drink was a Victorian favorite—warm mulled wine enriched with port and flavored with oranges roasted until blackened or smoked.

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~14% ABV

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