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Salad Dressing

Cooks' Note

See also sauces

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Bland

    Step 1

    One way to pep up bottles of store-bought French or Italian dressing is to put a halved clove of garlic in the bottle and let it stand overnight or longer.

  2. Too acidic

    Step 2

    Add a small pinch of baking soda or sugar.

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