Did you know that avitaminosis (which confidently gains its’ positions in late winter - early spring) can lead to obesity? It can be explained quite simply, and I bet we all have had that feeling. When there is something missing in a body (I mean some microelements or vitamins, not brains or… well, let’s stop with brains), body starts asking for it. And there you go – walking at 3 a.m as a lunatic around the fridge dumbly repeating your mantra “I want something, but this is not it. But I want something”. Result – lots of garbage in the stomach, no sense of satisfaction whatsoever.
But what is even worse than that – when you know what you want, and still cannot find it. My guess would be that the whole drama revolves because there is no “stupid body” to accuse of not behaving, it’s just you and all mighty search engines one on one. Here I don’t mean spies and all alike who lead glorious lives in search of “something to defeat those bastards”. I mean something more down-to-earth, just like home-made pizza dough. I already feel your sympathetic and understanding smile. No, seriously, is there a pizza lover who never tried to make pizza dough at home? Are there a lot of those who succeeded the very first time? I highly doubt that, unless you were born in small Italian village and observed your mom making pizza while you had fun with your diapers. But in that case you cannot be counted as pizza lover – you automatically turn into pizza pro or pizza hater.
But let’s get back on track – pizza dough. In the sacred crusade for the traditional recipe we all have stumbled upon millions of recipes – yeast or no yeast, eggs or no eggs, milk or no milk… I even learned about Indian, Israeli, Korean, Swedish and Nepalese pizza, I got to know average yearly sales, gender preferences, regional distribution and longest delivery (if you’re interested, this one was made from Cape Town to Sydney), not to mention different scientific approaches and styles. But if you’ve lived long enough, you must have learned not to trust others (if you didn’t, it’s right time to learn your lesson). And that’s exactly what I did. Now it’s your turn to decide if you trust me enough, as I’m here presenting for your judgment my recipe of pizza dough.
Thin Pizza Dough
You will need:
1 glass Flour
1 dash Yeast
3 oz Butter
3 oz Butter
1 Egg
1 dash Sugar
Salt
Warm water
Method:
1. In a glass or cup combine yeast, sugar and 1 teaspoon of flour. Cover it with warm water. Stir well to dissolve. Let aside in a warm place to rise.
2. Meanwhile melt butter over medium heat.
3. When yeast mixture rises, in a big bowl combine melted butter and remaining flour.
4. Crack an egg into flour. Add salt. Mix well.
5. Finally pour in yeast mixture. Mix again.
6. Knead dough with your hands until you receive soft stiff dough.
Tip: depending on the flour you might need to add more flour to get non-sticky dough.
7. Sift some flour over working surface. Cover your hands and rolling pin with flour to prevent dough from sticking to it.
8. Start rolling the dough to the approximate size of baking sheet or pizza pan you will use for baking.
9. When the size of the rolled crust becomes close to the size of baking sheet, transfer the dough to the sheet.
Tip: depending on your baking sheet, you might need to grease it first.
10. With the help of your fingers spread the dough over all the surface of the sheet or pizza pan.
Tip: the trick here is to be slightly short of dough to spread it really thinly.
11. Pizza dough is ready for further use. Bon appétit!
It is also important to remember what to call this pizza when you treat your friends. In case you happen to live in Europe g*d forbid you call it Italian pizza, or even worth – traditional Italian pizza, no matter what topping you use. Believe it or not – there is a law passed to protect pizza, and if you attempt on that brand – be ready to serve the sentence.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs Lovett
Mrs Lovett
P.S. Interested how does it look cooked? Check out here.
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