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yogurt is warm milk held overnight

A tablespoon of yogurt in a quart of milk, at about a hundred degrees, in a thermos overnight = yogurt.
Failing a thermos, a pot with a glass lid on a sunny day—that’ll do it, too. The bugs are called something thermophilus, apparently, which means they like heat. How’s that for scholarship?
There are niceties, but I [...]

readying new fermentation vessels

Alder Yarrow on winemakers