I love yogurt for breakfast....every morning with fruit and nuts. It's an addiction. I prefer plain, and homemade is so much better so I make my own. It's easy and not as tart as plain commercial yogurt.

Here is my recipe:
1/2 gallon milk I use skim or 1%, but it's your choice

2 cups instant milk. You really do need this

1/4 cup or so of yogurt with live active cultures, you don't need to measure. You can use your homemade yogurt in the future

1 envelope plain gelatin. I use this because I like thicker yogurt You can make it without.

1 can evaporated skim milk, you don't have to use skim. This is optional, and I don't usually add this, but I did tonight.

vanilla. I like to add a little

-Heat milk and instant milk just to a boil, 185 degrees.
-Sprinkle gelatin over 1/4 cup cold water, let stand to soften a minute or so.
-Add to milk mixture and stir.
-Heat up a cooler with hot water. I use our bathtub for this process. Have ready some larger plastic jars you will fill with hot water to keep the yogurt warm. I use three.
-Let cool to 110 degrees. You can hurry this up by placing pan in sink of cold water.
-Add vanilla.
-Mix yogurt with some of milk mixture to temper it. Add back to rest of milk mixture.
-Pour mixture through strainer into glass jars, cover. You can use canning jars.
-Dump out hot water from cooler. Fill plastic jars with hot water and place with yogurt jars in cooler. Close the lid and let it multiply for about 5 hours or so. (This is the cool part for me. Kitchen chemistry. I'm growing my own food!) It's ready when it's thickened. You can make it right before you go to sleep and it's ready in the morning. The time doesn't have to be precise. The longer it sits, the tarter it will be. I have made it early afternoon and forgot about it till the next morning and it's fine. Was just more tart.

Thanks for posting! I am not a big lover of yogurt but I know others that HAVE to have it every morning. I have passed on your recipe.

You're welcome. It truly is addicting!

I forgot to add if you want to make your own "greek" yogurt, which is really just strained yogurt, all you have to do is put cheesecloth in a strainer over a bowl, stir any yogurt and put in strainer in fridge overnight. In the morning you have thick yogurt in the strainer and whey in the bowl.