Smoking Bishop
The Victorian mulled wine punch from Dickens—port red wine and roasted oranges
- 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 sticksgarnish
- 1Stud oranges with cloves about 6 per orange
- 2Roast oranges at 350F until browned about 1 hour
- 3Quarter roasted oranges and place in large pot
- 4Add wine port sugar and spices
- 5Heat gently do not boil for 30 minutes
- 6Strain into punch bowl
- 7Serve warm in mugs
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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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