Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Pizza - Wes Read

Ingredients:
2 cups of "*bread* flour"
1 tsp. instant yeast (pizza yeast works also)
1 1/2 tsp. of salt
1 cup of water @ 110 degrees
1 1/2 Tbsp. of sugar
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Cornmeal


Sauce:
Hunt's tomato sauce
Add:
Oregano
Rosemary
garlic salt

Also need

Pizza pill
Pizza stone
Can purchase these from Bed Bank and Beyond.


Instructions:
This will either form two ovals or 1 large circle. Mix sugar, flour, and
salt. Dissolve instant rise yeast into cup of warm water. When yeast is
dissolved add olive oil to water. Then mix with dry ingredients. Mix wet
and dry ingredients until just combined (dough will be shaggy). Knead onto
a floured surface until it just forms a ball. Do not over knead, maybe
8-10 times. Let the dough rise until it is double in size ( about 1 1/2
hours).
Preheat oven to 500 degrees with the pizza brick in the oven. When dough
has doubled, punch it down to form the crust shape as desired (add flour
underneath and around the dough so it isn't so sticky. Once it's in a flat
circle, sprinkle pizza peel generously with cornmeal so the pizza can
slide of the peel. Place the dough on the peel. Add sauce, cheese,
pepperonis.
Open oven and pull the rack with the pizza stone out partially. Carefully
slide pizza off the peel onto the brick with quick side-to-side jerks.
Close and bake for 8-10 minutes on a pizza stone. The edges will be
brownish when the pizza is done.

Instructions for Sauce:
heat up till boil, then simmer

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