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
Tartar (horse) of eight foals produced by the Duke of Cumberland's mare Ruth. The name "Tartar" had previously been used for several other horses in the 18th century. The most notable was a Yorkshire-bred racehorse who sired Herod and was therefore the paternal great-grandsire of the St Leger winner who shared his name. Until 1913, there was no requirement for British racehorses to have official names, and the horse who later became known as Tartar competed in 1792 as "Ld A. Hamilton's ch. c. by Florizel out of Ruth". There is no record of Hamilton's colt competing in public until the autumn