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Serene Vannoy Serene Vannoy is offline
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Janet wrote:
> I have another question about pizza dough.
>
> I always seem to have trouble stretching it out. It tears, it won't stretch,
> etc etc. I make bread all the time, I've made puff pastry with no problem,
> I've made all kinds of specialty crusts such as the French ones that contain
> a lot of sugar and egg yolk, and have no problem with regular pie crust, but
> I've never been able to get the %*!$ pizza crust to behave!
>
> Any tips?


Do you let it rest first? Dough needs to rest for at least 15 minutes to
become stretchable, in my experience.

Serene

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