Here's a homemade salad dressing for Gloria, Indiana - I got the recipe from a friend-of-a-friend at a campground pot luck last summer. My copy is handwritten on a piece of cardboard, transferred from the "original" on the Styrofoam plate. I haven't made it yet, but I'm assuming the garlic would be a clove rather than garlic powder.

Nancy's Salad Dressing

2 cups white sugar
1 cup vinegar
salt & pepper
garlic to taste

Boil until clear, keeps in fridge.

Also Gloria, my grandfather used to make "fresh" salad dressing every couple of nights using a package of dry salad dressing mix (like Hidden Valley) and buttermilk whipped up in the blender. Much better than the bottled "stuff".
Fran in Ottawa Canada

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