Taste of Homeland: Yogurt to Chase Away Summer

The recipe for homemade yogurt is incredibly simple. Back in the day, my neighbor Uncle Mot specialized in "producing" this product, so every time I came over to visit, I learned the recipe.

To get white and delicious yogurt bags, he uses a jar of yogurt as a starter. The ingredients include a can of sweetened condensed milk, unsweetened fresh milk, and boiling water. Depending on the quantity of products he wants to make, Uncle Mot flexibly adjusts the ingredients.

Yogurt of a time

While watching him make yogurt, I saw him put fresh milk and condensed milk into a pot and stir them well to mix them together. He turned on the gas stove, let the heat simmer until the mixture boiled slightly, then turned off the stove. Waited for the milk mixture to cool down, then he added the most important ingredient. When the yogurt starter was added and stirred, the preparation was complete. Not as thick as industrially produced yogurt, the handmade yogurt was thinner but still fragrant when heated. This mixture did not need to be incubated like making yogurt, just let it cool before putting it into bags. He poured the mixture into a mug and started filling each bag one by one. Finally, he put all the yogurt bags in the freezer.

Back then, every summer, my uncle sold this dish very well. Especially when I was tired from cycling at noon, or when I came home from playing soccer and was sweating profusely..., I just had to run to my uncle's house, buy a bag of yogurt and "stop sweating" right away. There are two common ways to enjoy yogurt in a plastic bag. One is to open the elastic band and eat it, the other is to bite a corner of the bag and sip it. But we kids often did it the second way, so that when the milk flowed, it wouldn't spill on our hands. In the hot summer weather, there was nothing better than having a bag of cool, sweet yogurt in hand. Summer was immediately crushed.

Nowadays, life is comfortable, children eat all kinds of ice cream, handmade yogurt is gradually disappearing. One day, by chance, I came across a grocery store that still sells yogurt like the old days, I bought a dozen bags. While sipping, I missed so much the days when I used to hold 1,000 VND and run to buy yogurt.

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