Red Hot Poker Cocktail Recipe
The English labourer, according to my experience, prefers to warm his supper ale with a red-hot poker. Walter Johnson, Folk Memory, 1908.those good old days when it was thought best to heat the poker red hot before plunging it into the mugs of flip. In cold weather, the portable Red Hot Poker sits on the bar of L’Ecole, The FCI’s restaurant, plugged in and glowing away, looking like kitchen equipment meets Battle Bot. A flip is a cocktail containing egg (whole egg or just yolk), sugar and a spirit or fortified wine. They are similar to Egg Nogs but while Egg Nogs contain milk or cream, Flips don't. Flips were originally served hot, often warmed with a hot poker. Today they are mostly served cold, shaken with ice and strained into a chilled coupe or wine glass, usually garnished with a dusting of nutmeg. Heat a fire poker in coals until red-hot. Pull it out of the fire and plunge it into your mug or bowl. Remove it when the bubbling stops. If a little ash gets in there, scoop it out with a spoon. The hot ale flip combines the two in a frothy, warming cocktail. Tavern-keepers started by mixing a pitcher of beer, rum, and a regional sweetener (such as sugar, molasses, dried pumpkin, sorghum.
Red Hot Poker Cocktails
Red Hot Poker Cocktail Recipes
Charles Dickens’s drinking knowledge was as epic as his tales, many of which include passing descriptions of the Victorian era’s drinking rituals. The Smoking Bishop happens to fall into a family of punch-style drinks named for the clerical hierarchy. The Pope involved mixing with Burgundy while Archbishop employed claret and the Cardinal, Champagne. In a final scene from A Christmas Carol, Scrooge turns to Bob Cratchit, his belittled employee, with new eyes and invites him to be merry over a bowl of Smoking Bishop—the word “bishop” was 19th-century code for port—which referred to a roasted clove and orange-infused port punch, warmed and mulled with baking spices and further fortified with red wine.