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Janet

In article >, says...
>
> I do not have much experience with these. Used them some time back in a
> recipe and don't recall a problem. Then put them in that rice salad that I
> made last night. I ate one and noticed a medicinal quality to it but since
> there were only 2 T. for the recipe, I thought it would be okay. Well...
> It wasn't! The salad tasted fine when I first made it. But after it sat?
> The capers sort of took over the whole thing and all I could taste was
> those. I fear I am going to have to dump it all out. I could only manage
> to eat a few bites. Even after trying to pick around the capers, they had a
> very aggressive quality to them.
>
> Did I get bad ones? I bought the store brand but the other kind was about
> twice as expensive. Are they supposed to taste really strong and bitter
> like that? I don't remember the others being like that. I think they
> tasted more like a pickle.

2 tablespoons sounds an awful lot of capers in anything; are you sure
it wasn't 2 teaspoons?

Janet UK