SC - capers info and links
Nick Sasso (fra niccolo)
grizly at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 22 16:23:20 PDT 1997
Stephanie Rudin wrote:
> I always thought they were the buds of a kind of lily, but from
> the
> description in an earlier posting I'm not sure now, what kind of
> bud
> they are. I had never eaten them until the chicken dish I posted
>
> earlier. I'm not sure how much of there flavor is due to their
> own
> flavor and how much can be attributed to the pickling brine used
> commercially.
Capers are the pickled floral buds of the _Capparis spinosa_ plant, a
low, prickly, flowering bush. They are found promarily in the
Mediterranean basin coasts, hence their commoness in Southern Italian,
Morrocan and other Regional cuisines.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Caper
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropInfoSources/Magness_Info.html
http://www.cucina.iol.it/erbe/inglese/dati/35.htm
http://www.byerlys.com/bbag/Nov1996/vegetables.html
you can find seeds to grow your own at
http://www.ethnobotany.com/seeds.html#C
an herbal database of plant names to common names
http://balsam.methow.com/~gwooten/chem/hrbndx.htm
I hope this little tirade of information is helpful.
fra niccolo difrancesco
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