Chantilly Soup
Look for Esau's Pottage of lentils.
CHAR is, like trout, a fish of the salmon tribe, about nine inches or a foot long. Very few come to London; but it is worth a visit to the English, the Welsh, or the Scotch lakes to enjoy them. With a char on the table and with Windermere and Rydal Mount in view, we are truly in the heart of the Lake Poetry. The char is to be treated like trout, but it is generally understood, and Francatelli insists, that this fine laker-worthy associate of Wordsworth and Southey is the best of all fish for waterzootje. This was to be expected. We all know that the Lake school of poetry is not to be surpassed in its simplicity.
The name of the fish means red from the redness of the belly. St. Evremond, in one of his poems-an epistlerecommends his correspondent to make a trial of a certain poisson rouge-meaning the char, which is peculiar to II2 Charlotte England. The char is known in Scotland as the Lochleven trout also as the cardhui, the red-black.