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Yoghurt plant? googled but they seemed baffled - but took me to mumsnet where they seem to have heard of them but no suggestions about how to find one!

Back in the early 70's, I was given a piece of a yoghurt plant. You put tihis in full fat milk, and left in a fairly warm ( def. not a cold place) place overnight. Worked every time. I never used sugar in yoghurt, still don't. Had that 'plant' for many years, but is disappeared somehow. I advertised in a local newspaper for one ( have never seen one in a garden center) had one response from a woman who gave it to me for free.. I did exactly the same with this 'plant', but, the yoghurt was def. nowhere as nice as the first one. Am going to try the other way, i.e.using part yoghurt & full fat milk etc.It is well worth trying again.

Bl**dy thing!

Made the yoghurt this morning........ turned the machine on, timer set for 6 hours.

6 hours up, and the yellow light was still on... it's supposed to turn green when the yoghurt is done.

at the 6 hour mark, we had to go out. Dilemma! What do I do? Turn it off and put the yoghurt in the fridge, or leave it on and see what happens? :-S

Left it on.

Got home 5 hours later.... yellow light still on! Yoghurt looks OK, nice and thick, the way I like it.

I'll mess about with it tomorrow, try different fruit in it.

Raspberries for a start..... my favourite! :-D

Must look for some rhubarb.

I hope this makes sense.......... I've had a "few" sherbets tonight :-D

Aldi had a sandwich toaster with detachable plates and waffle plates.

Made the stuff, put it in the waffle iron and realized it would be a lot easier to do it on the griddle pan so the waffle plates have not seen the light of day since.

Thankyou Sharron.

Your flask method sounds the same as the yoghurt maker, but yours doesn't use electricity :-D

I had a voucher to spend at a shop........ got things I never thought I'd have :-0 ... like a waffle maker.

Waffles & yoghurt anyone?



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Fill your vacuum flask almost full with milk, leaving space for about two tablespoonsful of yogurt.

Heat the milk and allow to cool to blood heat.

Whisk two tablespoonsful of natural yogurt (most yogurt is live now) into the milk and pour it into the flask.

Leave overnight and you have a flask of yogurt.

Keep two tablespoonsful of this for the next batch.

Sharron gave a very straightforward one sometime ago but I can't find it to nudge, I tried it and it worked very well, and now I've lost the recipe.

But I always buy the Fat Free ones, no added sugar - the supermarkets here all seem to do them in half-litre tubs. I don't know if the yoghurt is the same as the milk analysis - there is apparently more sugar in skimmed milk than semi-skimmed and full cream milk because once they take the fat out there is more liquid milk with natural sugar to make up the volume! You can 't win.

Does anyone make their own?

I got a yoghurt maker this week, and made the first lot this morning.

I eat a lot of yoghurt (at least 2Kg a week), but recently found out that the "low-fat" ones have LOADS of sugar! Grrrr...... do what I think is the healthy option, eat the low-fat and find out it's not really healthy! :-(

If anyone makes their own yoghurt, any tips for me?

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