Homemade Yogurt

With a few inexpensive ingredients and a kitchen oven, you can make smooth and creamy homemade yogurt, for a fraction of the price of store bought. While you do have to start out with a container of store bought yogurt, after that you can use your homemade yogurt as the starter.

Homemade Yogurt

8 cups (half-gallon) of milk
1/2 cup natural, live/active culture plain yogurt

Pour the milk into a large pot on the stove. Attach a cooking thermometer to the pot and scald the milk at medium heat until it reaches 180 degrees F.
Stir the milk often so it doesn’t burn. You want the milk to scald but not scorch.
Remove the milk from the stove and allow to cool down to 110 degrees.
Place the yogurt in a bowl. Add 1/3 cup of the warm milk to the bowl of yogurt and whisk together until smooth.
Add the yogurt and milk mixture to the pot of milk and stir until mixed.
Preheat the oven to 110 degrees. Pour the yogurt mixture into a glass baking pan and cover with aluminum foil.
When the oven light goes off, put the pan in the oven, shut the door, turn the oven light on and turn the oven off.
Leave in the oven for 4 to 6 hours or overnight while the yogurt is made. Don’t shake or disturb the pan or the yogurt might not set properly.
Take out of oven when the yogurt has become firm. Set the pan in the fridge for about 6 hours.
Spoon into plastic containers and store in the fridge. Yogurt will last about seven days.
*To make a sweet yogurt, add a drizzle of honey or a little fruit jam to each serving.
*For a thicker yogurt, line a colander with cheesecloth, spoon in the yogurt and let drain over a bowl for an hour or so.

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April is a dedicated wife and mother of five, as well as Mamaw to two adorable grandbabies. She resides in Southern Indiana, along with her husband Joe and their daughter Melissa, and enjoys the quite life on their 3 acre homestead. She enjoys blogging about her adventures in frugal and healthy, grain-free cooking, gardening, household tips, and her family. April is also the owner and writer of The Secret Recipe Club, the fun Secret Santa of the food blog world.

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