Yogurt

[kokonutmama]

I might have mentioned this before, but I noticed that someone is eating Silk yogurt which can be mad expensive, so I thought I'd throw this out there.

I make my own soy yogurt out of boxed soymilk like this:

Sterilize

three pint-sized mason or other glass jars and their lids

 in boiling water, along with a

spoon

 (long ones are better, I use a sundae spoon) and a

pair of tongs

.
Open a

fresh container of yogurt

, either storebought or from your previous batch and distribute the contents among your three jars.
Open a

fresh box of soymilk

 (I find Westsoy to work best, Silk doesn't work well at all) and distribute the contents among your three jars.
Use your sterile spoon to stir the yogurt into the soymilk.
Liddify the jars.
Put the pot of water you used to sterilize the jars into the oven and (if you can) turn the oven on to 105 degrees farenheit.  Put the jars in the oven, not in the pot.  (the pot's just there to help the oven heat up.  Why waste energy, right?)  If you can't get your oven that low (it needs to be between 90 and 120 degrees) try putting ice in the hot water until it's 115 degrees or so, then put the jars in and monitor the temp, adding heat as necessary.
Wait about six hours, until the yogurt you've made pulls away from the side of the jar when tipped slightly.
Refridgerate.

I find that two pints lasts us almost a week, and I use the third jar to start the next batch.

[tristan]

That is pretty much exactly how we make it. We just use the top of the hot water system overnight instead of the oven - it it is pretty much hot enough here during summer to make it.

We have not made it in a while, but we should start doing it again.

[ShannonandDel]

Awesome. We are the ones using Silk. It is very expensive, but milk is still doing a number on Del. I will have to make it theis weekend!

[mum2maddox]

wow
i will have to try that, maddox loves yoghurt and i have untill now been naughty buying petit miams... soon i am moving into my own place and will start sharpening up and doing more baking and stuff... its hard when you live with others and the kitchen is not your own- you know what they say about wom,en sharing kitchens (well in this household it is true).

[kokonutmama]

I just wanted to mention that the yogurt made this way doesn't come out as gelatin-y as the Silk it.  Silk has an additive to firm it up.  Homemade is more like pudding.

BTW, what do they say about women who share a kitchen?

[ShannonandDel]

I made it. Delaney loves it. THanks!

[mum2maddox]

haha

just that we arent good at sharing our kitchens... my MIL is not very keen on letting people in to use her kitchen ... its really her domain ( a throwback to sole housewife days i guess.)