Yogurt

You can make yogurt with goats milk or cows milk. It is best if you can get hormone free milk to make it with. You will also need a starter yogurt. Starter yogurt is yogurt that has been made with active live cultures; this is the friendly bacteria that will turn your milk into yogurt. You can buy a small container of yogurt at the grocery to use for this purpose. Make sure that the container says Made with live cultures or something of this nature. You want to buy plain yogurt, not flavored. Each time you make yogurt you will need some starter. You can use your own starter, but over time it looses its potency and your yogurt will not turn out. So I always begin with store bought yogurt.

Start with a gallon of milk. Pour it into a large sauce pan. Heat milk to 180 degrees, (you can use a candy thermometer for this) stirring now and then so bottom doesn't burn. Take off heat and let cool to 110-115 degrees. Pour into quart jars. Add 2 heaping Tbls of the starter yogurt to each quart of milk. Stir gently, but well.
Next comes the incubation period. For 12 hours the temperature of the yogurt must stay between 90 and 110 degrees during this incubation time. There are several ways you can do this. If you have a large enough food dehydrator you can use that. You can also use your oven. Just turn on your oven to any temperature for 90 seconds, then turn it off. Turn your oven light on. Place the yogurt in the oven and check periodically to make sure the temp of the yogurt is in the correct range. If not, turn the oven on again for 90 seconds. Can also use a heating pad/towel/and box to cover up the yogurt to keep warm, or put it in a cooler with warm water. After 12 hours it is done. It will store in the fridge for several weeks. To eat add agave or another sweetener, fruit or granola.