Tartar sauce Tartar sauce Tartar sauce (spelled tartare sauce in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and other parts of the Commonwealth) is a mayonnaise of French origin, and is typically of a rough consistency due to the addition of diced gherkins or other varieties of pickles, capers and parsley. It is often used as a condiment with seafood dishes. It is most commonly used with clam strips, fried oysters, fish and chips, fish sandwiches, and fish fingers, among many other dishes. Tartar sauce is based on either mayonnaise (egg yolk, mustard or vinegar, oil) or aioli (egg yolk, olive oil,
Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the Crannied Wall "Flower in the Crannied Wall" is an 1863 poem by Alfred Tennyson. <poem> Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. </poem> Tennyson composed the poem by the wishing well at Waggoners Wells. The Tennyson memorial statue (1903) by George Frederic Watts at Lincoln shows him holding a flower in his hand and a plaque with this