yogurt making/goats milk

Zziggi

I've been making yogurt using cows milk + starter for a while now and we love it. I always add 2 tablespoons of milk powder as well and it makes it nice and thick.

However my kids have to have goats milk . I use a goats ytogurt starter and use goats milk but it is really runny. I obviously can't add the milk powder as it is from cows milk. I've tried leaving it in the yogurt maker for at least 12 hours (rather than the recommended 8 hours) and this does usually make it a little thicker.

Can anyone sugget what i could use to thicken the HM goats yogurt up a bit please?

I don;t suppose you can actually buy dried goats milk powder or dried soya milk powder can you? Long shot i know....

Thanks,

MrsB_2

You can indeed buy dried goats milk. I got some for dh a while back - sorry cant remember where from, but it would only have been the supermarket or holland and barrett. HTH.

bigmuffins

Hiya Zziggi!
If you can't get the milk powder maybe you could try straining the yoghurt?
- can use muslin lined sieve or lakeland did a yoghurt strainer thingy.

Zziggi

bigmuffins wrote:

Hiya Zziggi!
If you can't get the milk powder maybe you could try straining the yoghurt?
- can use muslin lined sieve or lakeland did a yoghurt strainer thingy.

Hi BigM :hello:
I try to strain it but TBH most of it goes through. So i need to thicken it up a bit.

Zziggi

MrsB wrote:

You can indeed buy dried goats milk. I got some for dh a while back - sorry cant remember where from, but it would only have been the supermarket or holland and barrett. HTH.

Oooh thanks for this! I haven't seen it in any supermarkets - maybe it's a sainsburys/waitrose item rather than cheap 'n' cheerfull asda/tesco?

I'll check out Holland& barratt - sounds like the sort of stuff they would stock!

thanks alot.

Zziggi

I've just rung my local Holland and barratt store who stock dried goats milk powder along with other similar products :j

thank you VERY much for the info.

Zziggi

MrsB_2

You're very welcome!! Let me know how you get on with the yoghurt making as all I ever seem to end up with is funny tasting milk!! (Not used the goats milk powder in that yet though).

Zziggi

After blinking at the price of dried goats milk (!) i had a go over night using goats milk, goats yog starter and 2 tbsp of dried milk powder. I did leave it 12 hours in the yogurt maker.

Brilliant results! Kids very happy.

MrsB_2

Sorry - didnt realise it was expensive . Havent bought it for a long time, and def not since been OSing, so obviously bought it in my 'why look at the price' days. Sorry again.

Penny-Pincher!!

You can actually get dried soya milk on perscription from your GP with it being dietry reasons.

PP
xx

Zziggi

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

You can actually get dried soya milk on perscription from your GP with it being dietry reasons.

PP
xx

yes, thanks PP. You can get baby soya milk powder but not any other soya products on prescription. Or was i told wrong?

I looked into getting other soya stuff on prescription when DD had a problem tolerating normal baby milk formula. I still give DD 2 bottles of this per day (morning & night) as H.V. said it's absolutely fine to give kids baby milk up until at least 5 years of age.

DS (who had nothing but diahorea (sp?) for the firs 18 months of his life) was older when we realised he also had problems with cows milk when we realised he had probs like his newborn sister. As he was older he has always turned his nose up to plain soya milk - compromise on goats milk most of the time.