Recipe for Homemade Sour Cream

We use a lot of sour cream in our home.  My kids devour it.  They literally lick it off the spoon. Disgusting if you ask me, but they are strange children.  We not only use sour cream for meals, but I use it in baked goods as well as it keeps quick breads and muffins moist.  Since I started making my own yogurt I have substituted the yogurt for sour cream and I have been happy with the results, but my oldest has begun to rebel   I have heard some complaints the last few weeks that yogurt is not sour cream and, therefore, I need to go out and buy sour cream.  Well, I searched the internet for a recipe to make homemade sour cream and I found one I liked: sour cream.  According to this site there are many ways to make sour cream, but one of them is to use yogurt as your starter: basically what you do is add 1-2 T of yogurt to 1 C of cream.

I am too cheap to buy cream, but I figured I could use whole milk instead.  And, I reasoned, why not kill two birds with one stone and just make the sour cream the same time as I do my yogurt?  So after my milk temperature dropped from 180 degrees Fahrenheit to 110 I removed 1 C of warm milk and added 2 T of sour cream, transferred it  to a clean jar and let sit uncovered in a warm oven for 18 hours.  There was a bit of whey on the top which I poured off, but the end result was a pretty good tasting sour cream.  I think it is a bit sweeter than the sour cream you purchase in the store and so next time I might try adding a bit more yogurt to get the "tart" taste, but I am pleased with the results and so is my oldest.