— Penny Ingman

If you go down a make your own yogurt rabbit hole, there are so many suggestions and so many ways to start your own yogurt. The most important thing is using a plant-based milk. And this happens to be from Elmhurst, and it is a milked oats, and the only ingredients on in it are water, oats, and salt. You can't use and, uh, plant-based milk that has war gum and lots of other words that you can't pronounce because it's not clean enough for to make the yogurt. So this milk, uh, the funny part about Elmhurst Dairy is that, uh, I grew up in Queens, New York, and Elmhurst Dairy was, uh, a milk delivery that came to our neighborhood. And the interesting thing is the company went away, but the children in the bus, in the family business decided to take the Elmhurst name and make it into a plant milk business. So this is a shelf stable milk. I like it a lot. I'd buy it when it's on sale. So next to starting with a very good milk, you really don't need to have any fancy starters because you can use a good Greek yogurt. The yogurt must be plain, the yogurt must be unsweetened. And there are many, many recipes that will give you the exact, excuse me, uh, portions to use. Uh, I like to use four tablespoons of this Greek yogurt to about a quart of this. And, uh, you're gonna heat it in your stove. And I, I just put it in the, in with the light on and some how it really works. I did buy a yogurt maker last year and I didn't like it. It came out too soupy. When I make it in the oven with this thick kite hill Greek yogurt, it comes out beautifully. If you want to have a thicker yogurt, and I prefer a thicker yogurt, I'll add about a half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of agar agar. And that naturally thickens it a little bit without, uh, compromising its ingredients, so forth and so on. So a natural plant-based milk that has no fancy schmancy ingredients and does not contain sugar and a very good quality unsweetened, plant-based yogurt. And I think you're good to go check out the article. Um, you might wanna go to a store like William Sonoma or any other kind of kitchenware store if you live in or near Philadelphia, I highly recommend going to FTE's, the oldest kitchen store in America, founded in about 1908. And it is a place that chef Fran and I love to go to and shop.

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