We often use the above expression to mean that we made something from basic ingredients. Just how basic does one get when using the term in cooking, furniture building, tailoring, etc? I recently was involved in a discussion of the term as it relates to my hobby of building model airplanes. One camp holds that one must design the model, then fabricate the parts, then assemble and finish it to declare it "from scratch," whereas another camp feels that one need only build from another's plans. What say you? Is a food dish prepared form an established recipe "from scratch?" Are clothes made from a store-bought pattern "from scratch?