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Gertie

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 6:18 am Post subject: Yoghurt making technique
I've always fancied making yoghurts BUT never got round to it. Did see the yoghurt maker in Lakeland which seemed a good idea. So will look forward to your article, ladies!

jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 6:27 am Post subject:

Gertie wrote:

I've always fancied making yoghurts BUT never got round to it. Did see the yoghurt maker in Lakeland which seemed a good idea. So will look forward to your article, ladies!

I think all yoghurt makers who do it a lot, will say forget machines for the task.

Which is a big change of tune for me for most things! I almost always want the professional gear for the job. But yoghurt making is about boiling milk then keeping it warm. There really is sod all need for gadgets.

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 7:01 am Post subject:

I must say we bought our yoghurt maker a year or two ago, long before the days of this site and when everyone I knew thought I must be mad simply to be making anything when you can get it on 3-for-2 at Tesco (my mum still says that!).

So I still use it and I find it very convenient, esp as we rarely have the heating on in the kitchen, and have no airing cupboard, and in fact keep the heating turned down as much as we can anyway so we don't have any constantly warm place to keep it.

In that case it's useful.

But it's certainly not necessary, and I would give it a go in a flask or even a polystyrene box if someone here could provide instructions from their experience.

I wonder if we should move this thread now to "recipes", Jema, as we've moved in to discussing methods a bit? Perhaps if Alison and Julie don't think there's enough in one version they could collaborate on a joint article?

cherylmc

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 8:18 am Post subject:

I haven't made yoghurt for years but my sons were weaned on it. I made gallons of the stuff in nothing more sophisticated than a sauce pan and a mixing bowl. I didn't use dried milk. I achieved creamy thickness by using full cream milk and reducing it slowly at a simmer befor adding the culture. My fridge then was in a cupboard (very energy inefficient) which was warm. Never failed. Years later I thought about the ideal conditions I had created for bactiral infection and then fed to my babies! No wonder they were so healthy! I had probably innoculated them against every illness known to man!

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 8:24 am Post subject:

jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 8:30 am Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

That's weird. My post which was definitely lost earlier, has come back now you've moved the thread. Ah well. It's not like I have an image of competence and sanity to lose

It was in the old one as well! I suppose I should have split it there

cede

Joined: 25 Mar 2005
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Location: surrey

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 9:50 am Post subject:
i find delia smith's method very easy and foolproof. you can find it on her website - sorry no idea whatsoever how to do a link. but like jema said you only need a flask and saucepan, milk and a teaspoon of natural yoghurt for the first batch. anyway give it a whirl

Nanny

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:56 pm Post subject: youghurt

i use a yoghurt maker for the same reasons as bugs really, the fact that i know that the stuff will be at that constant temperature.....

make it all the time as i take it to work with a spoonful of homemade jam in sor my lunch

i think the maker was maybe �15 from ascotts 5 years ago so it doesn't owe me anything..........

tried the other methods but just couldn't get it right i'm afraid, obviously don't have the right touch......

gill_didsbury

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Adelaide. South Austrlia

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 11:00 pm Post subject: yogurt making technique
Hi All, I have a yogurt maker, and have used those sachets you get to make the yogurt. Its not cheap to do it that way though Could some please give me the recipe for yogurt? Do you add the fruit at the same time? or do you add the fruit when its done? Thanks for your help Gill

jema
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 6:30 am Post subject:
Sachets? what the heck are they? All yoghurt needs is some old yoghurt and milk.

gill_didsbury

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 6:54 am Post subject: yogurt recipe please
Hi Jemma, The sachets are from a company called "Easiyo" yogurt base with acidophilus. Says on packet all natural, no preservatives added. You can get them in all flavours. I really didnt like the taste of it and it was sort of "stringy" Thats why I wanted a recipe Thanks Gill

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 7:35 am Post subject: Re: yogurt recipe please

gill_didsbury wrote:

Hi Jemma,

The sachets are from a company called "Easiyo" yogurt base with acidophilus. Says on packet all natural, no preservatives added. You can get them in all flavours. I really didnt like the taste of it and it was sort of "stringy"
Thats why I wanted a recipe

Thanks
Gill

That sounds more of a con than sachets of coffee

All you need for yoghurt is to buy a live (and most of them are) yoghurt you already like and use a bit of it.

alison
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 7:30 pm Post subject:
Again for the same reasons I have a yog maker. It keeps it at constant temperature, and I have had it for years.

wellington womble

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 7:47 pm Post subject:
presumably the sachets are actually just powdered milk and dried culture. nearly as bad as the 'add and egg and some milk' pancake mixes!

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