"kilikini" > wrote in
:


>
> Peter, would you care to share your pizza crust recipe? I'm literally
> dying to make some pizza and I'm gathering crust ideas.
>


Found it!! Splattered with red wine and tomato sauce stains, but still
legible :-)



Basic Pizza Dough

2-1/4 cups plain flour
1 packet *active* dry yeast (not Instant, it must be active)
1/4 teaspoon sugar (I just use white)
1 cup warm water
2 tablespoons oil (I use olive oil)


Put water, yeast, and sugar in a container, mix, and then cover and
place in a warm spot.

Sift flour into a large bowl. When water has foamed, pour into flour,
add the oil and mix.

When it forms a dough, put onto floured surface and knead for 10mins
till smooth and elastic.

Cut into two to make two pizza bases, or one pizza base and two large
calzones.


I usually put it on a pizza tray in the oven (once covered with
toppings!!) for the first 10 or so minutes, then when it's 3/4 cooked, I
slip it off the tray straight onto the wire oven racks to brown the base
properly. One of these days I'll get myself a pizza stone!!


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"People sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell