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- From: NORVELLE@uga.cc.uga.edu (Alisa Norvelle)
- Subject: Homemade Yogurt
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:43:17 +0000
- Message-ID: <950314.095320.EST.NORVELLE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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- Yogurt is a staple in my Lebanese friends' home. They use no fancy machines.
- It's very easy and tastes infinitely better than storebought.
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- 1 quart of milk
- 4 spoonsful of yogurt (Make sure "active yogurt cultures" is on the container)
- 1 blanket
- 1 nice, cozy, quiet place to rest
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- Scald the milk. When cool enough to stick your pinky in for 10 seconds
- without discomfort, add the yogurt and stir just a bit. Put a lid on the
- pan and wrap it in an afghan, or towel, or something else to help keep it
- cozy. Put the future yogurt someplace quiet and let it sleep overnight.
- In the morning: voila! Yogurt! Remember to save the last bit for the next
- batch.
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- Important hints: The only thing you need to remember to make it come out
- right every time is that the yogurt likes to be warm and quiet.
- Therefore, when you stick your pinky in--if it's comfy for you, it's probably
- comfy for the yogurt. If you jiggle it while it's trying to sleep, it's
- going to be ruined. Just be gentle with it.
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- *If* it screws up, there are two options: one, squeeze a lemon in it, let
- it wait 8 more hours and see if it recovers. If it doesn't recover or if
- you feel nervous about having warm milk fermenting for 16 hours or so,
- salvage the remainder by hanging in it cheesecloth over the sink until it
- makes "labne", i.e., cream cheese-like stuff.
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