Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cindy Hamilton Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:48:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <25f4ce0df00f34ba0ff392f4feee9c6f@www.novabbs.com> <99f8663e47e76fe73566b70916b3f781@www.novabbs.com> Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:48:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="116220c77b75852759b4273602f267af"; logging-data="37053"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wH+faWFCC+12CT0yUyAiFhzvQaCoVj98=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8U1rYYzY34vaEzZPtFOCkH/yMqE= Bytes: 2451 On 2025-04-15, Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-04-15 9:43 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote: >> On 2025-04-15, Dave Smith 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