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Fresh Yogurt!

Homemade yogurt, with Gabrielle's granola. Last year we decided to buy a slow cooker. In looking up recipes for our new appliance, we found a basic recipe for making yogurt in the slow cooker.   It made sense to try to make yogurt because we were spending so much on it every week and we had about a million of those quart-sized, plastic yogurt containers. Truthfully, I don’t remember the exact recipe I used but it was probably this one: crockpot365.blogspot.com “Plug in your crockpot and turn to low. Add an entire half-gallon of milk. Cover and cook on low for 2 1/2 hours. Unplug your crockpot. Leave the cover on, and let it sit for 3 hours. When 3 hours have passed, scoop out 2 cups of the warmish milk and put it in a bowl. Whisk in 1/2 cup of store-bought live/active culture yogurt. Then dump the bowl contents back into the crockpot. Stir to combine. Put the lid back on your crockpot. Keep it unplugged, and wrap a heavy bath towel all the way around the crock for insulation...