Sugar and spices (chiefly cloves, star anise, and cinnamon) are added according to taste. The liquor is heated or 'mulled' in a vessel with a long funnel, which could be pushed far down into the fire. " The drink is made by pouring red wine, either hot or cold, upon ripe bitter oranges. Gordon Browne describes this Christmas punch: In his notes for the 1907 edition of A Christmas Carol E. Your browser does not support JavaScript!Ĭharles Dickens' great great grandson, Gerald Dickens, brings his spirited one-man show to video.Īt 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 Christmas bowl of smoking bishop" ( Christmas Books-A Christmas Carol, p. 'God bless us every one.' said Tiny Tim, the last of all ( Christmas Books, p. God bless us.' Which all the family re-echoed. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle. The Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
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