SC - cognac

[Mark Harris]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 8-May-97 Re: SC - capers by
Philip & Susan Troy at asan 
> Up until yesterday, I would have said I couldn't recall any recipes
> using capers at all. I now recall at least one late-period English
> recipe that calls for them to be used, if I remember correctly, in a
> wine/butter sauce for fish (flounder, I think).

You see them more often in Southern Italian/Sicilian recipes; I believe
the plant is native to these regions.  Whether they were mentioned in
the period recipe books, I don't know.

toodles, margaret