Making cultured yogurt

Activating the Yogurt Starter Culture:
1. Stir one packet yogurt starter into 1 quart of pasteurized milk. Be 
sure to fully incorporate the yogurt starter into the milk.
2. Cover the jar with a towel or coffee filter and secure the cover 
with a rubber band. Alternatively, you may put a lid on the jar.
3. Let the mixture culture undisturbed at 70-77°F for 12-48hours. 
Check the culture every 6 hours or so. It is important to pick a 
location that is naturally warm (e.g.,the kitchen) and out of drafts. 
Ideally, it should be the warmest location in your home (up to 
78°F). If your home tends to be cooler than 70°F at night, consider 
setting the culture on top of a warm piece of electronic equipment 
(such as a television or cable box) or on a high shelf. Remember 
that drafts can affect the culturing process and cause the yogurt 
not to culture properly. Verify that the chosen culturing location is 
maintaining the proper temperature; temperatures that are too 
low or too high can damage the culture.
4. Once the yogurt is set (when the jar is tipped, the yogurt shouldn’t 
run up the side of the jar and should move away from the side of 
the jar as a single mass), cover the jar with a lid and place the 
yogurt in the refrigerator for 6 hours to halt the culturing process. 


aking Yogurt with Pasteurized Milk:
1. Stir ¼ cup of yogurt from your initial activation batch into one 
quart of milk. You can make larger batches of yogurt by adhering 
to the same ratio of ¼ cup of yogurt to 1 quart of milk making up 
to one half-gallon per container. 
2. Cover the jar with a towel or coffee filter and secure the cover 
with a rubber band. Alternatively, you may put a lid on the jar.
3. Let the mixture culture undisturbed at 70-77°F for 12-18 hours. 
It is important to pick a location that is naturally warm (e.g.,the 
kitchen) and out of drafts.(See above for ideas for keeping the 
yogurt in the proper temperature range.)
4. Once the yogurt is set (when the jar is tipped, the yogurt shouldn’t 
run up the side of the jar and should move away from the side of 
the jar as a single mass), cover the jar with a lid and place the 
yogurt in the refrigerator for 6 hours to halt the culturing process. 
5. When it’s time to make a new batch, place ¼ cup of yogurt from 
the previous batch in a quart of new milk and start again. Larger 
batches can be made (up to a half gallon per container) by 
maintaining the same yogurt-to-milk ratio. Yogurt from each batch 
can be used to make the next batch. Yogurt from batch A is used to 
make batch B, yogurt from batch B is used to make batch C, and so 
on. To perpetuate the culture, be sure to make a new batch of 
yogurt at least once every seven days. Waiting longer than one 
week between culturing can weaken and eventually kill the 
culture.

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