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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:48:57 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>>>> 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.
>> 
>
>
> 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.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton