We love yogurt. I use coupons and buy up what I can, or I buy the bigger tubs of plain and we sweeten it with splenda and Grandma's jam. But we still run through it fast around here. I have been wanting to learn to make it for while, and then I found this on one of my new favorite blogs, a crockpot blog.
I followed her directions almost exactly so I won't repeat them here--you can check her blog out if you want to try this. For my starter, I accidentally got vanilla yogurt instead of plain, and was worried it would mess up, but it didn't. The only tricky thing was finding organic, NOT ULTRA PASTEURIZED milk. It's ok to have pasteurized, but not ultra, and the organics at a few grocery stores are ultra. Our health food store has 2 brands that were not ultra pasteurized. I picked
The crockpot lady said to start with whole milk, so we did. Later we might try lower fat milk with added powdered milk or gelatin to help it thicken. I even thought we could try goats milk so Adeline could have a taste! Can you tell I'm a bit excited?
Here is our finished 1/2 gallon of yummy healthy yogurt.
On the left, next to the milk, you'll see I'm draining the whey from one batch, to thicken it like a Greek yogurt. I'm using a coffee filter. I've read whey is excellent to use in baked goods but I'll have to research it a little more.
Here is our favorite yogurt tester. She wanted to eat it all even before I sweetened hers with a little splenda.
I would HIGHLY recommend this easy crockpot recipe. And let me know if you try it!
2 comments:
I don't know if I'll try this or not...though it looks like a good beginning for the next science experiment that comes up....but I sure had fun telling my friends at Bible study how YOU did it! Everyone's intriqued. If I ever figure out the link thing, I'll post a link to the crockpot website.
Good job! Yum! I think I'll do something similar when I have more kids.
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