None of the 50 bottled ranch, Caesar, and Italian dressings that our experts tasted came close to our homemade versions (see the three recipes ... as Hidden Valley, Kraft, and Wish-Bone.

We hear salad dressing today and think of balsamic vinaigrette, ranch, Caesar, Italian, all the basics. But back in the 1950s, salad dressing was a universal term for the tangy, creamy spread that ...