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Making yogurt

Well... I finally did it. I've been thinking about making yogurt for months... no, years! Ever since Ana was old enough to eat yogurt, she has LOVED yogurt and eaten 1-5 servings a day. The child would literally eat ONLY yogurt some days if she had her choice!

Josh found yogurt in the store when he visited Gulu last year, but it will be expensive... so I made my first batch of yogurt yesterday. My goal is to experiment with different low-tech methods while still in the USA and then it will be easier when I get to Uganda.

I found a crock pot version of making yogurt, which looked really fun, but I went with the good old fashioned stove top version - heating 8 cups of milk (I used 2% because that's what we had) to 200 degrees, then cooling it to 112-115, then whixing in 1/2 cup store bought plain yogurt, then 4-5 hours incubating at 110 in our picnic cooler with hot water in it. Sounds so simple! It is, but it is time consuming, and not worth the $0.70 per week savings that someone online calculated... that is until we move to Uganda and the savings will be different and availability of yogurt will be different.

It actually turned out great even though I made some mistakes (yes, how simple is the recipe, but I still made mistakes!!). Ana (the queen of funny sayings), however, said this morning that the homemade yogurt "tastes like God" and "tastes like protein" so she didn't eat her serving... huh?! :)

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