SC - capers
Gretchen M Beck
grm+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu May 8 09:58:20 PDT 1997
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
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