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Dec. 12th, 2015 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotMy last two batches of yoghurt haven't set at all. With the second, I decided to try to reactivate the soup by heating it up just a bit and letting it incubate again (which the websites all say works!), but instead I got cheese curds. Fortunately I have a length of cheesecloth and I set it up in my sieve, poured the curds in, and am making cheese. Farmer cheese? Paneer? I'm not sure. At least it won't be wasted. Going to buy a thing of yoghurt at the grocery store this weekend because I'm getting tired of running through milk like this - it's only just barely worth it financially to make my own yoghurt (you basically break even compared to store-brand, but come out on top compared to other whole milk, live & active culture yoghurts, because they're never store brand), so buying gallon after gallon of milk eats into the margin. If the cheese comes out well, I'll heat up and reincubate the last runny batch and have lots of paneer. (Heaven.) But I wish I knew what the problem was. Used a new starter, made sure the temperature was right at all steps in the process - there's no reason for it to suddenly not work.
Today we had the children's Christmas program at work - 18 kids, which is doing pretty well for us. I was anxious the whole time, and have been for two days, because I was scheduled to give a talk on Regency women's dress and then do a book signing. But then nobody came. A Christmas miracle! Does sting, but it was really nice not having to speak.
Tried to transcribe things on ShakespearesWorld.org. Failed miserably. 17th century handwriting is insane.
Ron cut his hand on some kind of farm equipment and had to be rushed to Albany to a hand specialist. :( Don't know more yet, Mom didn't have time to text. He's not supposed to lose any fingers, she said, and hopefully he'll be all right.
Today we had the children's Christmas program at work - 18 kids, which is doing pretty well for us. I was anxious the whole time, and have been for two days, because I was scheduled to give a talk on Regency women's dress and then do a book signing. But then nobody came. A Christmas miracle! Does sting, but it was really nice not having to speak.
Tried to transcribe things on ShakespearesWorld.org. Failed miserably. 17th century handwriting is insane.
Ron cut his hand on some kind of farm equipment and had to be rushed to Albany to a hand specialist. :( Don't know more yet, Mom didn't have time to text. He's not supposed to lose any fingers, she said, and hopefully he'll be all right.
