Can I build up a culture of bacillus accidophilus?

Question

I used to have a type of accidophilus culture that looks like cottage cheese and if we leave it milk, it will turn it to yogurt. Very very healthy! Then one day I travelled and the people who stayed home left the curds in water, and not milk, and they died...

I haven't been able to ever find it again for sale. Does anybody know where I can get it from?

Also I thought of just buying capsules of accidophilus baccilus at the health food store, and break a few into milk to see if those curds will grow. Has anybody tried it that way? Does it work?

Answer 1

Buy yogurt from the store with live cultures of bacillus acidophilus, and you can use that to grow it in milk as you were doing before.  I have made yogurt doing this with a sample from store bought yogurt.  I know someone who buys those drinks with live cultures, and he grows it in milk instead of continuing to buy the drinks.