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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Preserving Corn

Our local Food Lion stores run a really good sale on fresh corn in shucks once a year and it was this past week.  We've been traveling and didn't get home until Friday night so we had to do some creative managing of our time in order to take advantage of this sale, which ended midnight last night. In other words we had to turn a blind eye to all the other things that were screaming at us to get done as a result of us of being out of town.  

We purchased 4 boxes of corn still in their shucks yesterday and worked and worked and worked until late last night to get it all preserved.  After sharing some with others, we added 60 ears of corn on the cob and 14 quarts of cream style corn to the freezer part of our pantry.  

We don't really have the garden space to grow corn so this was a sale that we just couldn't pass up if we wanted corn in our pantry.  

Taking advantage of produce sales is a good way to keep your pantry well-stocked when growing it is not an option!

When it comes to keeping my pantry well-stocked, I carefully consider all my options!

patsi

She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

I Made Yogurt!!!

… and it was good!!!  I used to make it all the time but had gotten away from it.   Last week I dusted off my recipe/method/instructions and made a batch, here’s how I did it …


You will need:

1 cup plain yogurt with cultures (I used Fage Greek yogurt)
1 quart jar (sterilized)
3 cups milk (I used 2%)
Food thermometer  (This is similar to the one I have.)
¼ cup powdered milk
Place the 3 cups of milk in a pot and slowly bring to 180 degrees over low – medium heat (You don’t want the milk to scorch.)
When 180 degrees are reached remove pot from heat and pour milk into sterilized warm quart jar.

Let cool to 120 degrees  (I placed a paper towel secured with a rubber band over the mouth of the jar and inserted a small food thermometer down through the paper towel into the milk.  The paper towel held the thermometer dial up out of the milk and I could easily keep a watch on the temperature.)
When the milk has reached 120 degrees, add ¼ cup powdered milk and 1 cup yogurt to jar of milk.
Put a lid on the jar and give it a good shaking to mix everything up.





Wrap jar in a towel and place in the oven and turn the oven light on.
Let jar sit in the oven with the light on for approximately 12 hours.

Check yogurt for firmness and refrigerate.
I've been enjoying this with some frozen fruit from our freezer ... hmm, it's good!
When I start getting low I’ll remove a cup of yogurt and start the process over again.










until next time,

mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry

She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27 

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