I blame you all! And yogurt!

evi3000

:A Hello!

I'm new to the forums and I wish I'd never looked at them - they're great. I'm completely addicted.

Yesterday, I spent ages looking for yogurt making tips/recipes - found them, made it last night, ate it today. Absolutely delicious, I'm never buying yogurt again (except when I need some more live stuff!)

So, that's it. I blame you lot for being such a font of knowledge and information and keeping me from other things - like ironing!!!!

Luckily, I work Tuesday and Wednesday so I won't be on here all day - but I'll be bacl when my 2 year old has gone to bed at 8pm. There was an article in the observer about mothers looking forward to bed time so they could have a glass or considerably more of wine. I will be doing the same but instead of getting drunk, I'll be coming on here!!!

evi3000

ceridwen

We'll be seeing you again later then - much later, as in a few weeks time then!:D when you've finished reading.

destiny_star2006

can you point me into the yoghurt making way do u need any machine or is it all by hand?

tylersbabe

Hi know how you feel I am a thinking about getting a slow cooker as I type, and I have just printed off the GF banana cake to make my mum for her birthday....................

Gosh help me !!! I don't do cooking

destiny_star2006

well i never started until i came across this website on cooking shortbread and choccie biscuits as we speak x

evi3000

There are loads of yogurt making tips on here but it took me ages to sort through them.

This is what I did (following recipes and tips from other people)

I have one of those easy-yo plastic things from Lakeland Limited (my favourite shop but I've banned myself)

Lots of people say use uht milk but I just couldn't bring myself to do it - didn't have any either way).

I had a small tub of yeo valley organic probiotic natural yogurt (150g).
I put 1.5 tablespoons into the easy-yo plastic pot, boiled a mixture of skimmed and whole organic milk - 1 litre (didn't have enough of both). Let it cool to about 43c (have a small electronic thermometer (apparently cooled down sufficiently to levae your finger in - baby bottle warmth). Added it to the yogurt and left it in the easy-yo thermos overnight.

Some people put in a normal thermos, some in glass jars in an airing cupboard.

Apparently (won't know for sure for a while) you can use the yogurt you've made to make more yogurt but only for so long - have read 7 odd times. Another poster suggested freezing parts of the original batch and then defrosting before using (will def try that)

I then strained the yog (through a muslin in a sieve) for a few hours in the fridge. I came home and it was delicious. Creamy, smooth, not at all tangy (unlike the yeo valley I started with)

Give it a go. It really is delicious.

squeaky

destiny_star2006 wrote: »

can you point me into the yoghurt making way do u need any machine or is it all by hand?

We have lots of different threads on yoghurt making and some of them do include making yoghurt without a yoghurt maker.

Have a browse:-

Yoghurt threads on Old Style