johns@hp-pcd.UUCP (johns) (07/09/84)
I make pizza semi-regularly. I tend towards a deep dish, thick crusted pizza. This is how I make mine: Pizza dough. 2 cups whole wheat flour 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon salt (enough) warm water 2 tablespoons yeast Treat this just like a basic bread dough. Add yeast and honey to about a cup of luke warm water ( too hot -- you kill the yeasties, too cold and they won't grow). Let this sit for 10 min. until it is foamy. Add salt , stir in the flour and knead a little. You should get a good spongy bread dough. Press the dough into a 9 X 13 (buttered) pan. (I prefer glass). It is ok if it is a little thick.. It will give you a very thick crust. You can cut the dough in half and get two thin crusts. I have had very, very good luck with the stone pizza pans. I don't remember what they are called, but they give you a crisper crust that isn't a brick. spread your sauce in the pan, put in your veggies, and pile high with cheese. You can't have too much cheese, unless it runs out of the pan. But the cheese should be heaping. I mix 50/50 , swiss and mozzerella. Too much swiss and you get one large chunk of cheese that you can't cut thru. Too much mozzerella, and you have such a stringy cheese that you will pull the cheese off the rest of the pizza. ( crate the cheese before you put it on). To make a sauce I : take a can of tomatos (not stewed so I don't get extra spices) a can of tommato paste onions garlic basil oregano salt. Cook a looooong time until thick. One warning for all of this. I tend to taste as I go a long. I fudge and alter the recipies depending on the types of ingredients that I have. Even the dough recipie is inaccurate, since I usually add a spoonfull of honey and a hand full of salt. These will give you a starting point. I hope that it helps. John Sechrest hp-pcd!johns tel-503-757-2000
dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (07/13/84)
Anyone have good recipes for pizza dough, pizza sauce, or special
methods of cooking?
Can you grill a pizza?
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Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois
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Colossians 1:17ed@mtxinu.UUCP (07/18/84)
I don't really have a recipe for pizza sauce, but I like a very
herby tomato sauce. Make your favorite with lots of extra
oregano and basil. Some bay leaf and fennel seed is good, too.
For cooking pizza, the best thing is a stone or ceramic that
can be heated to the right temperature and will hold the heat.
These sorts of things, for use in normal home ovens, are available
in many stores that sell gourmet cookware. They're really the
only hope for getting the dough cooked right.
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Ed Gould
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