Homemade yogurt!!

You need

1/2 gal of 2% milk

1 carton (5.30z) yogurt with live cultures.  I use Danon OIKOS Greek nonfat vanilla yogurt 

1/2 cup powdered milk

1/2 to 1 tsp. vanilla

1/4 cup sugar ( or sweetner of choice and sweetened to your taste. some like it the way it is without sugar)

Put yogurt in a bowl so it will get close to room temp

Cook milk in sauce pan till 180 degrees.

Take off heat and let cool down to 100 degrees

Add a cup of the cooled milk to the bowl of yogurt and stir till mixed well and then add it back into the pan of cooled milk.  Stir well

Add 1/2 cup of powdered milk and mix well

add sugar and mix well

add vanilla

Have three  quart ball jars ready to fill.   When I fill the jars I use the wide mouth funnel with a strainer in it to catch all the curdled milk.

Place all three jars on a heating pad turned to low setting.

Wrap a towel around them and then cover with a bucket to help keep the heat in.

You will have yogurt in 7 to 9 hours.

Place in refrigerator for the process to stop and in the morning you will have wonderful yogurt!