Homemade pizza and garlic and cheese calzones... was Dominos Meat Pie Pizza
Nice dough peter, I might just try it tonight. I have been looking for a
decent pizza dough recipe for ages I usually just use a scone dough but it
is never that flash.
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Cheers
Craig L
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is
almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
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> "kilikini" > wrote in
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>> Peter, would you care to share your pizza crust recipe? I'm literally
>> dying to make some pizza and I'm gathering crust ideas.
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> Found it!! Splattered with red wine and tomato sauce stains, but still
> legible :-)
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> Basic Pizza Dough
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> 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)
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> Put water, yeast, and sugar in a container, mix, and then cover and
> place in a warm spot.
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> Sift flour into a large bowl. When water has foamed, pour into flour,
> add the oil and mix.
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> When it forms a dough, put onto floured surface and knead for 10mins
> till smooth and elastic.
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> Cut into two to make two pizza bases, or one pizza base and two large
> calzones.
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> 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!!
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>
> --
> 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
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