Saturday, March 12, 2005

The Pizza Crust Recipe

The basic recipe came from some book on pizzas, but I don't remember which book anymore.
  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 package yeast
  • some salt
  • seasonings (see the previous entry)
  • 1/4 cup corn meal
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • flour (don't ask me how much - enough to make dough)
Mix everything but the flour first. Then add enough flour until it can be kneaded. Then knead it for a while.
Let it rise for half an hour. Then form it on a pizza stone, or in a cast iron skillet.
Stick in the oven (anywhere from 350-400 works fine) for 10 minutes or so, until the crust is somewhat done (doesn't need to be completely done since it will go back in the oven)
Top the baked crust with whatever your pizza-topping heart desires, and put it back in the oven until done.

Lately I've been buying varied grains and flours and adding them to the crust - whole wheat, buckwheat, milled flaxseed, soy flour. Soy flour smells rather strong when mixing it, but isn't very strong after baking. (To me the soy smells like a nice alfalfa bale)

Next entry: Pizza making in pictures.

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