Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

On 2025-04-15, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-04-15 9:43 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-04-15, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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There's several ingredients involved when you make ranch
dressing from scratch if you don't have the packets.

You still need the buttermilk and sour cream or mayo. I imagine the
packages have only the herbs and spices.

 
You can get packages that require buttermilk and packages that have
powdered buttermilk inside.
 

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I assumed that if one were to make a buttermilk based dressing from
scratch one would start with real buttermilk.  Heck, one of the things
that stops me from cooking with buttermilk is the waste of buttermilk.
This would allow us to make a batch of buttermilk pancakes and then use
the leftovers for dressing.

I'd just make ranch from scratch.  You can use pantry ingredients
for everything but the buttermilk.  It's not much more difficult
than opening a package, and you can spare yourself maltodextrin,
MSG, calcium stearate, artificial flavor, xanthan gum,
carboxymethylcellulose, and guar gum.

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Cindy Hamilton