Wednesday, December 20, 2000.

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Smoking
Bishop

At the end of A Christmas
Carol, Scrooge proposes
that he and Bob Cratchit
will discuss all that Scrooge
will do for Bob’s family later
that afternoon “over a bowl
of Smoking Bishop.”

In his notes for the 1907:

edition of - A. Christmas
Carol, E. Gordon Browne
describes. this Christmas
punch:

~ The-drink is inade by
pouring red wine, either hot
or cold, upon ripe bitter or-
anges. >

The liquor ‘is heated. or
‘mulled’ in ‘a vessel with a
~ long‘funnel, which could be

pushed far down: into the

fire.

_. Sugar and. spices (chiefly :

~. cloves, Star anise, and cin-

- namon) are added accord:
i ing | to taste. :

“Tt. is. sometimes “called

a “purple wine’ and. received:

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Preface to the original
edition of A Christmas
Carol:

“I have endeavoured in
this Ghostly little book, to
raise the Ghost of an Idea,
which shall not put my read-
ers out of humour with them-
selves, with each other, with
the season, or with me. .

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[ - Charles Dickens

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