jmcquown had something important to tell us on Thu, 29 Jul 2004
05:42:53 -0500:

>Kajikit wrote:

>> Capers are very much an acquired taste. If you find them too strong
>> used whole, you can shred them
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>
>How on earth do you "shred" capers? They are tiny!

Just put a handful on a plate, squoosh them together into a little
heapand run the knife through a couple of times. Because they're
actually flower buds that'll seperate them. They turn into a sort of
mush, but it works! That's the way my mother taught me to deal with
them anyway