French style yogurt

Yoplaits oui style yogurt copycat recipe:

Ingredients:

2 - containers ((32 oz 1-quart)) (or) 8 cups half and half (or) whole milk
1 cup plain yogurt of your choice
1 -14oz can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
1 tablespoon flavoring of your choice (fruit,jam,nuts,granola,etc) (optional)

Notes:
half and half makes a thicker and more flavored yogurt from my trials.

Put about 1 tablespoon of your favorite filling or fruit into your storage containers before making your yogurt.

Directions:

In pan pour milk or half and half and 1 can sweetened condensed milk. Set temp on medium high heat and let mixture come just to a boil stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and place pan in sink of cold water filled up to 3/4 height of your pan.
Replace with cold water if gets warm, this will speed up cooling down. Remove pan when temperature of contents of pan reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a small bowl add vanilla extract 1 cup yogurt and 1 cup of the warmed milk mixture and stir till smooth. Take the bowled mixture and stir back into pan.
Pour milk mixture from pan to a pouring container and pour into empty or previously flavored filled jars till about 95 percent full. Cover all jars with lids.

Place all covered jars into your coice of incubation methods mentioned in the video and leave undisturbed for 8 to 14 hours. Remove from incubation container after the 8 or more hours and place in refrigerator for a couple hours. Enjoy.
You homemade yogurt Has a shelf life of about 3 weeks. Mine never gets that far everyone eats them in the 1st week.

Makes about 17 -5oz jars

Lids can be found here:

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