REQUEST: How to make pizza
Stephanie da Silva
Subject: REQUEST: How to make pizza
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 11:15:21 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
Keywords: pizza
I'm trying to make pizza but I am unsure of the exact ingredients
for the base and topping (tomato mixture). The next problem
is what temperature I should cook the whole thing - or should
I partly cook the base first or what?
All help and advice gratefully received.
Jianing
John David Auwen
>Article 84 of rec.food.recipes:
>Date: 16 May 90 15:09:53 GMT
4 cups flour (I generally use whole wheat)
1 cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon salt
1 package yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons olive oil
Mix flour, sugar, and salt together. Dissolve yeast in water and add
to flour mixture. Stir until dough has absorbed all water then add
olive oil. Mix until dough is not sticky, adding water or flour as
necessary (should not need much of either using the above amounts). Knead
the dough for 8 to 10 minutes then place in a covered bowl in a warm
draft free area for 30 minutes or until dough has doubled in size. Then
knead for 2 or 3 more minutes and let rise 20 minutes more.
Now roll the dough out. The above recipe should make enough crust for
one 16" deep dish pizza or two 16" regular pizzas. Either way, roll out
two 16" crusts. For deep dish, put the first one in the pan, then
add tomato sauce, meat and veggies, and tons of cheese. Then place your
second crust over this and pinch the two crusts together. Add a top
layer of tomato sauce and another ton of cheese. Now cook in a hot
oven ( 500 degrees or more) for 20-30 minutes.
Jeff Haferman internet: jlhaf...@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52240
Blade
>From: ucl...@ucl.ac.uk (Jianing Wei)
>Subject: REQUEST: How to make pizza
>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 11:15:21 GMT
>Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
>Keywords: pizza
>I'm trying to make pizza but I am unsure of the exact ingredients
>for the base and topping (tomato mixture). The next problem
>is what temperature I should cook the whole thing - or should
>I partly cook the base first or what?
Okay, I'm not too sure about making your own sauce, but I have
picked up a couple of things about making pizza over the last few months by
experimenting. I usually use a jar of pizza sauce (as opposed to spaghetti)
for two pizzas. The cheese is best if you buy it in a block and grate it
yourself. It's not as dry. Also available are "pizza cheese" packages.
They're not too bad if you don't mind the extra money. The best recipe I've
found for dough so far is included below.
Pizza Dough
3 cups flour
1 package yeast
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup tepid water
dash salt
dash sugar
Combine all except flour in bowl. Beat until smooth. Rest five
minutes. Stir in all flour until massed. Rest five minutes. Mix some
more. Knead on floured surface 50 times. Let rest five minutes. Knead 20
times. Let rise 90 minutes or until doubled in size.) Makes about two good
sized pizzas. (about 12-14", depending on how you work the dough)
Side note: This dough can be tossed to stretch. Feel free to experiment.
--
Pete Schott pact...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
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I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.---
Pete Schott pact...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
S.R. Atkins
Keywords: Pizza
We'll try that again....
For 1 x 18" or 2 x 12" pizzas
Tomato Sauce
~~~~~~~~~~~~
2 tbsps olive oil (ideally the sort with herbs soaked in it)
3 finely chopped onions
800g tin tomatoes
3 tbsps tomato puree
1tbsp mixed herbs
2 beef or spicy vegetable stock cubes
Soften the onions in the oil, add everything else, break up all the lumps
and leave it to simmer until it's lost about half it's volume (1-1.5 hrs)
Dough
~~~~~
1lb bread flour (white. wholemeal, whatever...)
1 tsp salt
1 oz butter
1 oz olive oil
1/4 oz sachet of instant yeast
1/2 pint warm water
Rub the butter into the flour and salt, then mix in the oil.
Make up the yeast and water as the packet reccomends, and leave it to grow
for a few minutes. Mix into the flour.
Knead until elastic, leave to rise either in a plastic bag coated with oil
or under a damp tea-towel.
Knead again for a few minutes, put it into oiled pizza tin or baking sheet.
Smear sauce on top, add toppings (capers & pine kernels are two people
rarely think of). Dribble some oil over the top. Cook for about 25 mins at
400F.
Another easy pizza base is to take a batch out of some bread dough and mix
in some olive oil until it feels right....
Steve (90...@eng.cam.ac.uk)
Karla Peterson,308,5080,
orange and tasted like it had spaghetti sauce in it (ie tomatoes
and appropriate spices). Does anyone have a bread recipe like
this? (Preferably for a bread machine, but I could modify a regular
recipe.)