{"id":1213,"date":"2010-08-26T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:35:28","slug":"yogurt-via-erica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/yogurt-via-erica\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogurt via Erica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erica, over here where she “blogs sporadically<\/a>” mentioned making yogurt the other day.<\/p>\n

I believe my judicious reply was, “You did not!”<\/p>\n

Shortly after, I received an email from her with instructions:<\/p>\n

A gallon of milk in a crock pot at 0700 hrs, on low for 3-1\/2 hrs.<\/p>\n

1000 hrs, shut off crock pot.<\/p>\n

1200 hrs, remove some of the (still!) warm milk and whisk it with a cup (I used more because I was paranoid) of active yogurt. I used some kind of organic something from Whole Foods. I also used VANILLA. This matters later—to my kids.<\/p>\n

Return yogurt and milk to the crock pot. Stir it up good. Replace lid. Wrap crock pot (unplugged) in towels.<\/p>\n

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Walk away.<\/p>\n

2000 hrs (that’s 8pm to me), unwrap, lift lid. Marvel at the delicate aroma of vanillin and acidophilus. No. really. It was kind of amazing.<\/p>\n

Also not the layer of whey on top.<\/p>\n

Yes. Whey is clear.<\/p>\n

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Erica has a pasta pot with a strainer. I have a deep fryer with the basket. Following her suggestion, I used a clean t-shirt for the straining process. I know, but cheese cloth would have been too porous. I suppose five or six layers of cheesecloth might have worked…<\/p>\n

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After an hour and a half, I had about 2 inches of whey, and solid yogurt around the edges, softer in the middle. I also had to set up a second strainer because a gallon of milk made more than a deep fryer basket’s worth of yogurt. I got nearly a quart of whey and would have gotten more (and a more solid yogurt) if I’d been more patient. But I was tired.<\/p>\n

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It all went in a bowl. Bowl into fridge. Fridge to bowl with fruit the next morning.<\/p>\n

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It never looks as good in pictures, but my oh my was it good. The boys claimed it was a success though they added agave nectar to theirs and requested MORE vanilla flavor next time.<\/p>\n

How could I say no?<\/p>\n

I think this will be a weekly thing. But next time I’m doing that eight hour span overnight. I never sleep for a full eight these days, and that way I can get the yogurt REALLY solid (which the boys and I like better).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erica, over here where she “blogs sporadically” mentioned making yogurt the other day. I believe my judicious reply was, “You did not!” Shortly after, I received an email from her with instructions: A gallon of milk in a crock pot at 0700 hrs, on low for 3-1\/2 hrs. 1000 hrs, shut off crock pot. 1200 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102,117],"tags":[85,146,147],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-cooking-family","category-gluten-free-cooking-family","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-yummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}