Super duper easy Home made yogurt!

I thought I would take advantage of the cheap milk now available and make some yogurt. The results were delicious!

Ingredients :
1)  Milk . I used a  2 liters of full cream

  2) Some fresh natural yogurt as a culture starter.  used about 3-4  tablespoons. Not the flavored variety.

Method.

Heat the milk in a saucepan until it boils, stirring  regularly with a wooden spoon to prevent burning. Turn off when it boils. Allow to cool for 15-20 minutes, until it reaches 45 C . I used a cooking thermometer to check.  Add yogurt and mix in.

Now you need to keep it warm while the culture grows.  I poured the liquid into a plastic container, sealed it and placed it in a beach cooler bag. Then shoved and old blanket in the bag  over the  plastic container and zipped up the bag.  The next morning , after about 12 hours to allow the culture to grow . I opened the bag and voila! Fresh yogurt!

But wait there's more.


Half of the yogurt I poured into my trusty Chux cheese cloth substitute and allowed the water to drain out  for another 12 hours. The result- delicious tangy cram cheese. Yum! Yum!

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