Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Pizza Crust

This is my mom's pizza recipe (with the change of olive oil...her recipe calls for shortening). My mom always made pizza with this crust, her homemade ragu sauce and then pepperoni, Canadian bacon, canned mushrooms and mozzarella cheese when we were growing up. When Adam and I moved to Connecticut our world view changed when it comes to pizza. Last night we had pizza with grilled eggplant, red pepper and onions. We like to conjure up all sorts of pizza topping combinations. Adam also cooks the pizza on a pizza stone on our grill. He heats the grill to about 500 degrees (with the pizza stone inside) then he slides the pizza onto the stone (he has one of those wooden paddles and he's very clever). He only cooks the pizza about 5 minutes. It is wonderful!

2 t yeast
1/4 c warm water
1 c scalded milk
2 T olive oil
1 t salt
1 T sugar
3 c flour

Knead for 10 minutes. Let raise an hour. Bake pizza at 375 for 15 minutes

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