Caper buds. Capers are a distinctive ingredient in Italian cuisine, especially in Sicilian, Aeolian and southern Italian cooking. They are commonly used in salads, pasta salads, meat dishes, and pasta sauces. Examples of uses in Italian cuisine are chicken piccata and "spaghetti alla puttanesca". Capers are known for being one of the ingredients of tartar sauce. They are often served with cold smoked salmon or cured salmon dishes (especially lox and cream cheese). Capers and caper berries are sometimes substituted for olives to garnish a martini. Capers are categorized and sold by their size, defined as follows, with the smallest sizes
HMS Tartar (1801) her into service as HMS "Observateur". On 23 August "Tartar" captured the Charlestown packet. Later in the year Captain Hawker exchanged with Captain Stephen Poyntz of and "Tartar" returned to England under reduced masts as a consequence of damage she had sustained in a hurricane. "Tartar" was paid off in October 1807. Then between October and April 1808 she underwent repairs, which cost £18,700. In October, Captain George Bettesworth took command while "Tartar" was fitting out at Deptford for service in the Baltic. This was early in the Gunboat War between Britain and Denmark-Norway. In what became known as the