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How to Make Organic Yogurt

Here's how to make your own homemade, raw, organic yogurt. To get started, you'll need the following:

- 1 cup raw, organic milk (Use larger amount of milk for more yogurt, and increase ingredients accordingly)
- ¼ teaspoon yogurt starter (can purchase from Mercola.com)
- 1 drop animal rennet (optional; acidifies the yogurt for enhanced texture)
- a whisk
- liquid measuring cup
- medium-sized bowl
- a container (preferably glass) with a lid

This type of yogurt culture is fantastic stuff. In future videos, I'll show you some other great recipes it can be used in.

Let the yogurt-making magic begin! Simply do as follows:

- Sprinkle ¼ teaspoon yogurt starter onto 1 cup organic milk.
- Whisk thoroughly.
- For thicker yogurt, substitute some cream for part of the milk. (if you use all cream, you'll likely end up with sour cream).
- Add 1 drop animal rennet (optional).
- Whisk again to blend ingredients well.
- Pour mixture into glass container and cover with lid.
- Place container into your oven.
- Close door and turn on light bulb inside oven only.
- DO NOT TURN OVEN ON. Temp will reach approx 75° with light only.
- Keep inside oven overnight or for about 8-10 hours.

When yogurt's done in the morning, stick it in the fridge, and you'll have scrumptious, healthy yogurt by dinnertime!

Another method would be to use a couple of tablespoons of store-bought yogurt in your raw milk in place of powered starter culture, then continue with the above recipe. The disadvantage to this is, it's not technically raw because obviously, it's come from pasteurized yogurt.

The culture starter is a much better bet! Make it from scratch and know all the ingredients are wholesome. Enjoy it plain or jazz it up with some stevia, xylitol or fruit, and you're good to go! Delicious! Enjoy!




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 +54 Points           
 
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BY Russ Bianchi   
  
[ Joined on 09/06 ]
[ Posted on March 26, 2007 ]
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Yes, way to go Luci! 

When Danone,Yoplait, and the other mainstream brands, are all offering HFCS laden junk food, labeled 'yogurt', it's high time we show everyone how to get back to basics, and slow wholesome food, in their own kitchens, with nutritious raw milk, that is so much better for all consumers, while saving money also!

I prefer my home made yogurt with fresh whole fruit (berries)!

As to allergenic comments, I personally have found many who are allergic to store bought pasteurized, homogenized, stripped, processed, chemical and/or artificial, or man made, laden grain based sweetener so-called yogurt, (like HFCS), that have no problems with this simple and good for you home made yogurt; provided, yet again, free of charge, from the good folks at mercola.com



 

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BY Patri   
  
[ Joined on 03/07 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on March 27, 2007 ]
 
...and now part 2.

HEAT the oven to about 100 F (remember the body temp of the animals) turn off the oven and place your yogurt wrapped in towels to maintain the incubation.  This is a far better method of heat distribution.  I know...one still finds the info about the light bulb.

A.  some ovens don't have one unless you turn the oven on
B.  heat is uneven.

Oh, and...no dear...don't guess and use cream...and no you don't get sour cream this way.  That takes (if you want to be fussy) a different bacteria.  Or, yes, just add a little lemon juice to thick cream and it will sour.  BETTER, is to let cream sour naturally...but folks today panic at that old fashioned tradition.

Do I know what I am talking about?  Yes.  I make goat yogurt all the time...no, I don't use rennet but I sometimes use a little dried artichoke flower (like the farmers do here in Spain) and make my yoghurt thicker this way, or even turn it into cheese.

Rennet is really rennin, made from (dead) calf stomach (usually).  It is used to curdle milk. 

Goat yogurt will never be very thick.  Homemade yogurt anyway is never as thick as the store bought, unless you use a particular combination of starter bacteria.

And although 'proper culture starter' is nice, you can make your own after the first generation of your yogurt that you started with a heaping tablespoon of high grade active culture yogurt.  Nothing wrong with that.

Patricia, food writer  www.epicureantable.com

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BY Aram Ovsepian   
  
[ Joined on 03/07 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on March 26, 2007 ]
 
I agree with Russ regarding the allergy comments.
Just to add to it, I find that most people who are allergic to milk are what is called "lactose intollerant". Lactose is the kind of sugar in the milk. Yogurt culture is living and multiplying in the milk by feeding on the lactose. In the end we get a wholesome product that is almost lactose free and if you are lactose intollerant you should be able to consume it.I do recommemend to slowly build up to it.

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BY AC786   
  
[ Joined on 03/07 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on March 27, 2007 ]
 
I live in Columbus, Ohio and there is no way to get Raw Milk here.  Infact, it is illegal to sell or buy raw milk here.  Since raw milk is not available, can I use Organic Milk to make yougurt?

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BY alita   
  
[ Joined on 03/07 ]
Author of the Article [ Posted on March 27, 2007 ]
 
I used to make yogurt with dry powdered milk and starter.  To keep it warm, I put the jar in my heated water bed for several hours and presto! Yogurt!  That has been a few years ago. Just thought I would share a unique way to make it.

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BY GrandSlack