An Ulverston friend sends this receipt. Mrs. Barton was the wife of the Rector of Windermere at this period. ‘Char is a fish chiefly remarkable for its scarceness,’ writes Bickerdyke, sometime Angling Editor of The Field. ‘He is a lake fish — much resembles trout, but is redder on the belly and has smaller scales — and generally more gorgeous in colouring. They are found in many lakes of the United Kingdom — in Loch Doon, Ayrshire; Loch Achilty, Ross-shire; Loch Knoc
