LUKE HONEY'S
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843), Scrooge entertains Bob Cratchit with a ‘Christmas bowl of ‘Smoking Bishop”. Smoking Bishop is a mulled wine, or punch: made from port, red wine, lemons or Seville oranges, sugar and spices, popular in Victorian England, and served warm. It was also customary to reheat it with a red-hot poker drawn directly from the fire.