Classic cocktail

Smoking Bishop

The Victorian Christmas drink named in Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Hot port and red wine with roasted orange, brown sugar, and nutmeg.

Glass
Punch cup
Method
Build
Difficulty
Hard
Ingredients
6

Ingredients

  • 2½ oz Ruby Port
  • 2½ oz Red Wine
  • ½ oz Fresh Orange Juice, from clove-studded oranges roasted 60-90 min
  • ¾ oz Hot Water
  • 1 tsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 pinch Ground Nutmeg

Garnish: Clove-studded orange slice

How to make it

  1. Gently heat the port, red wine, roasted orange juice, hot water, and brown sugar in a small pan, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Do not let it boil.
  2. Pour into a punch cup and dust with nutmeg.
  3. Garnish with a clove-studded orange slice. For a party, scale up by the bottle and keep it warm on low heat.

More you can make with these bottles

Using only what goes into a Smoking Bishop, plus basics like citrus, sugar and soda.