Bishop

Ingredients

• a small lemon
• a dozen or more cloves
• about a tumblerful of water
• a stick of cinnamon about six inches long
• one blade of mace
• a quarter of a nutmeg grated
• four lumps of sugar
• a bottle of port wine

Method

1. 1

   Wash the lemon, stick cloves into it, and heat it.

2. 2

   Boil water with cinnamon, lemon juice, mace, nutmeg, and sugar for half an hour.

3. 3

   Heat the port wine, then mix with the boiled spices and add the hot lemon.

4. 4

   Grate nutmeg on top and sweeten to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical home cookery (1906) by A. G. Payne, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bishop : — “ Some say that ever, ’gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike. No fair)' takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.” Bishop, a good old-fashioned drink, whose nose has, so to speak, been somewhat put out of joint by mulled claret since that beverage has become so cheap, is best made as follows : — First take a small lemon, and at this season of the year they will be easily obtained white and new. First wash the lemon in a little warm water, and then stick into it a dozen or more cloves, and make the lemon hot by placing it in a plate in the oven, or better still, by suspending it 154 PRACTICAL HOME COOKERY. from a string in front of the fire, taking care that the lemon does not hang too close, so as to get so hot as to split. Next take a httle water, about a tumblerful, and pour it into an enamelled saucepan, and add to it a stick of cinnamon about six inches long — of course, breaking up the cinnamon ; also put in the juice of a small lemon, one blade of mace, a quarter of a nutmeg grated, and four lumps of sugar that have been rubbed over the skin of a fresh pale-looking lemon. Put a lid on the saucepan, and let these spices boil on the fire gently for half an hour, or a little more. Next take a bottle of port wine

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