Article: KITCHEN DETECTIVE: ; Cut back on mayo, add rice wine vinegar for tang

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BLEU cheese dressing sounds simple enough, but many cooks turn it into a Frankenstein of a recipe, adding Worcestershire sauce, chopped parsley, lemon juice, red pepper, minced garlic, garlic powder, onion, and even cream cheese. Other recipes seem to forget entirely about the bleu cheese, adding so little that one can hardly taste it. The question was, how can one make a relatively simple bleu cheese dressing with a creamy consistency, a tangy, slightly sweet flavor, and a big cheese taste without being heavy or overpowering?

I started by testing four recipes, one each from Cook's Illustrated magazine, The Victory Garden Cookbook, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and ...

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