How To Make Yogurt
June 4th, 2009 | Cultured Foods, D.I.Y., bacteria, fermentation, GAPS, howto, incubate, milk, preparation, probiotic, techniques, traditional, yoghurt, yogurt
Yogurt has been with us since mankind was nomadic, the wild Huns lived on fermented mare’s milk and conquered the world. It is very easy to make and is high in vitamin C and homemade probiotics. Check out this article to see just how many probiotics you can get from homemade yogurt. For maximum probiotics, keep the yogurt incubating for at least 24 hours.
In this video we use raw goat’s milk from our local farm and demonstrate various ways to incubate the yogurt. I have found the best method is to use an airplane blanket. They retain heat amazingly well.
This post is part of the Natural Cures Tuesday BlogCarnival run by www.hartkeisonline.com, please stop by her site for up to date information on what is going on with raw milk.
Follow this link for detailed instructions on the in’s and out’s of yogurt-making.
Thank for sharing !!
I ended up heating it to about 190F. I hope it will be okay. I should have read the instructions on the other post more clearly and heated it only to 120F. This is my first time, so next time I’ll be more careful.
Thanks for your comment! Yogurt is quite versatile so I am sure it worked out. The main thing is not having it too hot when you add the culture to it. Also good to heat it to 180 or thereabouts to get rid of unwanted micro-organisms so that the lactobacilli can easily colonize the milk.
Found your instructions and will give them a go. Liked your simple no nonsense approach. Looked at some other sites and found them too fussy. Thanks for taking the time to teach us!
Thanks for the comment Carol. You are right, people like to ad a lot of unnecessary fuss to working with live cultures. I generally find them to be more resilient than most information out there would have you believe.
We’ve been making yogurt at home now for well over a year. We’ve been ordering our cultures from New England Cheese Making Company and buying our milk from a local farmer. I love making it and the taste of it. The more I’m involved with my food the happier I am when I eat it.
I love what you say about how getting involved with your food makes you happier. Definitely. I’ve been thinking about this and it seems that perhaps we have all come un-rooted from the earth because of the distance between this connection with food, and it is a real shame, we barely even have a concept of what we are missing it seems.