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Yoghurt making

Written by Pink Bouncy

There are lots of different ways to make lots of different types of yoghurt, this is how I make plain yoghurt with the things I already have at home.

To make any type of yoghurt, you must use a starter (something that contains the bacteria that causes milk to become yoghurt), provide food (milk) for the bacteria to feed on and keep it all at a temperature that allows the bacteria to grow and reproduce themselves.