Thing Forty: A Taste of Failure
Aug. 4th, 2013 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980Today, I had my first yogurt fail. I've been making my own yogurt for a while now, and even when it hasn't gone as smoothly as I'd have liked (out of the dry milk that thickens it, only half the amount of leftover yogurt I usually use as a starter, etc.), I've always gotten decent yogurt out of it. This time, that did not happen. The last time I went to buy yogurt starter, the store was out of the Yogourmet starter that I usually get. I went to a different store, and bought a different brand. This was a non-dairy starter--meaning that it was made without dairy, though it is fine to use for making dairy-based yogurt. There were two batches' worth of starter. I forgot to save out some yogurt from the first of the two batches, so I made my second batch also using the starter packets. This time, I had remembered to save out some of the yogurt. Last night, I made my yogurt as usual, and added that saved yogurt at the point where I usually put it in. This morning, when I opened my Yogotherm to see what the Lactobacillus Fairy had left me, I saw a mass of half-cultured milk in the bucket. I guess that new brand of starter doesn't work well in the second round (that is, culturing milk using yogurt made with the starter). I hadn't done anything else differently than usual. Times and temperatures and milk variety were all the same as usual.
I didn't want to waste all that half-cultured stuff, though, so this morning, I made pancakes according to a recipe from the New Settlement Cookbook. I used half AP flour and half six-grain flour for a bit more flavor and fiber than the original recipe, and used my half-cultured milk in place of regular milk or buttermilk. The pancakes came out quite yummy, served with real dark maple syrup, proving that failure can sometimes taste pretty sweet. I'll buy my yogurt at the grocery store this week, and next Friday, I'll make my yogurt with the Yogourmet starter that I picked up recently.
I didn't want to waste all that half-cultured stuff, though, so this morning, I made pancakes according to a recipe from the New Settlement Cookbook. I used half AP flour and half six-grain flour for a bit more flavor and fiber than the original recipe, and used my half-cultured milk in place of regular milk or buttermilk. The pancakes came out quite yummy, served with real dark maple syrup, proving that failure can sometimes taste pretty sweet. I'll buy my yogurt at the grocery store this week, and next Friday, I'll make my yogurt with the Yogourmet starter that I picked up recently.
