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Bishop

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 bottle red wine
• 2 pcs bitter orange zest, green, finely peeled
• 75 g sugar

Instructions

1. Add the as finely peeled green zest of 2 bitter oranges and 75 grams of sugar to 1 bottle of red wine.
2. Let the wine sit, covered, for a few days, then remove the bitter orange zest and bottle the Bishop to use as a punch extract.
3. For each bottle of red wine, use about 2 tablespoons of this extract and sweeten to taste with fine sugar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.