Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:27:34 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <25f4ce0df00f34ba0ff392f4feee9c6f@www.novabbs.com> <99f8663e47e76fe73566b70916b3f781@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f79718b3d1cf8084499a45f3b6dfb279"; logging-data="432076"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX197WCeoOtCTRy/74lbJxKUF" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GY+EFcaiEx/cMjn3AV46JnY5Xm4= On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:43:39 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton wrote: >On 2025-04-15, Dave Smith wrote: >> On 2025-04-15 1:12 a.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 3:43:15 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: >> >>>> I am outside of the US and ranch dressing is quite common here.  I used >>>> to have a lot of lunches with one of my co-workers and if there was a >>>> salad he had ranch dressing.  I don't know why anyone would need a >>>> packet of something to make it. It is easy enough to make. >>>> >>> 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. And not only powdered buttermilk. Here's a popular one apparently: Ingredients: Maltodextrin, Salt, MSG, Buttermilk Solids, Whey, Lactic Acid, Food Starch-Modified, Dried Garlic, Dried Onions, Citric Acid, Dried Parsley, Dry Whole Milk, Acid Casein, Guar Gum, Calcium Stearate, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose -- Bruce