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) name unknown, while in the company of "Tartar" and . By agreement, Commander John Willoughby Marshall of "Lynx" and Baker of "Tartar" pooled their share of the prize money with that due Lieutenant Daniel Carpenter, the commander of "Cheerful". On 13 April 1810 "Tartar" captured Crown Sloop "No. 9". Then four days later "Tartar" and were in sight when captured "Enighied". "Tartar" and were in company when they captured "Twende Broders" on 31 July. "Tartar" then captured "Anna Maria Elizabeth" and "Enigheit" on 6 and 7 August with "Emanuel" and "Eliza Maria" following on 11 and 10 August. At the