No not together!
Yesterday afternoon I made my sweet friend, who is such a blessing in my life, a birthday cake for her 70th birthday. She has a host of visitors staying in her home, and I knew a tea time treat would be enjoyed.
Where the yogurt comes in is this :: I read on the blog, Two Red Wellies, how Emily has experimented with making yogurt in her oven and not in a yogurt maker. It was a hundred blooming degrees outside and I was regretting having a hot oven after baking the cake, when all of a sudden, I thought aha! Make some yogurt.
This is what I did. I heated 4 cups of 1% milk to the boiling point in the microwave. Then I added one of the cups of yogurt I’d made the week before as a starter. I have a glass jar with a sealed lid {it’s blue – imagine that!} After mixing the yogurt and milk together gradually so there weren’t lumps in it, I poured it into the jar. I wrapped the jar in 2 towels and secured them. Then I popped the little bundle into the still warm oven and closed it.
This morning I have a full jar of 4 cups of yogurt. Now that was easy. So much easier than all the measuring into the cups. However, I do love the ease of slipping a cup of yogurt into my lunch bag {in a morning rush to get out the door} each day, so I may use the jar of yogurt and make a mega batch of yogurt cheese to use as a substitute for sour cream, ricotta, cream cheese, you name it… yum, cheap, only the price of the milk I used!
Maybe yogurt would be good on cake though?
Thanks, Emily!
:) yay!
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