Oxford Receipt for Bishop

Instructions

1. Make several incisions in the rind of a lemon, stick cloves in these, and roast the lemon by a slow fire.
2. Put small but equal quantities of cinnamon, cloves, mace and allspice, with a race of ginger, into a saucepan with half a pint of water. Let it boil until it is reduced one-half.
3. Boil one bottle of port wine, and burn a portion of the spirit out of it by applying a lighted paper to the saucepan.
4. Put the roasted lemon and spice into the wine, stir it up well, and let it stand near the fire ten minutes.
5. Rub a few knobs of sugar on the rind of a lemon and put the sugar into a bowl or jug with the juice of half a lemon (not roasted).
6. Pour the wine into it, grate in some nutmeg, sweeten it to the taste, and serve it up with the lemon and spice floating in it.
7. Obs.: bishop is frequently made with a Seville orange stuck with cloves and slowly roasted, and its flavour is to many tastes infinitely finer than that of the lemon.