Making sour cream & yogurt from commercial bought

[Dani]

Last night hunny and I went grocery shopping and bought both these item. While I was making beef stroganoff for dinner I got to thinking about keeping this sour cream going because it is cultured and then that led me to wondering about the yogurt too. Anyway, I took out a couple mason jars. For the yogurt I used one cup to three parts whole milk. The sour cream is also about a 1 to 3 ratio but out in a smaller pint sized jar. Planning on leaving out overnight and seeing what happens. This is how I keep cultured buttermilk going but has anyone tried these other two items?

 

[Caribou]

My mother has a yogurt maker. It requires a low temperature "cook" or rather a specific temperature range for proper yogurt growth.

 

[Dani]

@Caribou I may run some hot water and wet a towel to put around it to help ithe yogurt get started.

 

[Caribou]

This might help but there are many other sites.

https://wellnessmama.com/59276/yogurt-recipe/

 

[snappy1]

When I used to make yogurt, I just pulled a few tablespoons out of the batch I was making and froze them individually in baggies to start the next batch. I've always used the heating pad method.

 

[Flight]

I'm not a fan of yogurt (yuck) but this topic might be a good topic for Angie's articles she want people to wright about.

 

[Terri9630]

Did they have live cultures? I don't like yogurt but I'm pretty sure you need live cultures for it to work.

 

[Dani]

Yes they both had live xultures. I ended up putting them back in the fridge after I had gotten home yesterday after work. This morning I tasted them and the flavors of both are there, but neither one really thickened up like the originals. They won't be a total loss and I will use them in cooking something. Hunny and I will have to be taking a road trip this weekend and we'll be eating on the road. I think the "yogurt" & "sour cream" with powdered sugar and vanilla will make a good dipping sauce for fresh fruit. I have cantaloupe, honeydew and a silver something melons out in the garden.