[rec.food.recipes] REQUEST: Yogurt

terry@brillig.cs.umd.edu (Terry Gaasterland) (11/03/90)

I've tried 5 times to make yogurt at home and succeeded twice. Why it
failed the other 3 times, I have no idea.  

Does anyone have a tried and true method?   

Here's my nondeterministic method:

  Each time I took several cups of skim milk, heated it to just 
  below boiling, stirred in a spoonful of plain yogurt (Giant brand, 
  Safeway brand, and Dannon) and placed the mixture in an oven previously
  warmed to about 150F.  The mixture was in a ceramic pot each time.
  
  After staying in the oven (oven was off) for about 12 hours, the first
  time and the third time, it made yogurt -- runny but recognizable.  The
  rest of the tries failed miserably.  I couldn't even drink the result.

Any clues?  Might there be a factor that I'm missing out on?  I used 
a different container of yogurt for each different try.  But otherwise,
I think that's the only glaring variable...

  -- Terry

xxrami@utasys.uta.edu (Rami Zureick) (02/28/91)

How do you make plain yogurt?

[yogurt recipes have appeared in digests 6, 57, and 60, all available
from wuarchive.wustl.edu by anonymous FTP  -aem]