For an experiment I just put 2 cups of yogurt on top
of a cheese cloth for straining into a wide mouth jar.
Not exact matches
I used lime juice (not lemon), I let the almonds soak
for about a whole day (I did peel them), I didn't have
cheese cloth so I used a coffee filter (it did drain), I set my oven to 350 and put them in before the oven pre-heated and set it
for an hour (figured the oven would heat up in 15 min, so it'd be 45 min
of cooking)... They were burnt on the bottom and sides and they were dry and brittle.
For the spice mix — if using whole spices, wrap all
of them in
cheese cloth.
When I strain my kefir through
cheese cloth, can I use the thick part that doesn't strain through
for the yogurt portion
of this recipe?
For example, a lot
of people recommend using
cheese cloth, which I just can not get onboard with, so I'll show you what I prefer.
The solid endosperm
of mature coconut (West coast tall variety) was crushed, made in to viscous slurry and squeezed through
cheese cloth to obtain coconut milk, which was refrigerated
for 48 hours, then subjected to mild heating in a thermostat oven.
We have you covered with thermometers, yogurt makers,
cheese cloth bags, extra jars and a number
of options
for incubation should you need a constant temperature (required with all yogurts).
I then transferred the mixture to
cheese cloth and placed the mixture in a sealed sauerkraut crock (the kind with the lip
of water around the edge — just the mixture inside the
cheese cloth and nothing else), and I let it sit
for about 48 hours (a little longer than the recommended 36 hours — I live in a basement apartment in a cool climate, so the temperature was around 60 degrees most
of the time).
I found a recipe
for citrus pectin here: http://foodpreservation.about.com/od/Preserves/r/Homemade-Citrus-Pectin.htm but I also saw that some
of the recipes in the food in jars book says to tie lemon seeds in
cheese cloth instead
of using pectin.
hi, so i been making kefir
for some time iv found i love pitted dates, blend in about 8 stoneless dates to 1 pint
of kefir and a few drops
of vanilla, if making
cheese kefir, i strain threw
cloth and i even drink the whey after, i was wondering if this is a good or bad idea?
A bonus is that the cottage
cheese in particular freezes well so
for the bother
of boiling milk, straining through
cloth etc, you can make a larger amount and put some aside, which makes the bother a bit less bothersome if only by needing to be done less frequently.
Ms Dashtaki was renting space in the kitchen
of an Egyptian restaurant where she and her father, «like elves before and after their working hours», lovingly cultured their yogurt under a blanket, then drained it through a certain kind
of cheese cloth, then stirred it
for hours, and so forth.