Pizza Dough Recipes , Tips and Quick Questions

squeaky

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As for cups - the americans work by volume rather than weight.

You can usually buy plastic cup sets in pretty much any supermarket - but for recipes that are ALL cups you just need to use any old cup or mug you like, and as long as you use THAT mug for all the ingredients the proportions will work out fine.

In the meantime - an american cup is 240mil and a european one is 250mil

Hardly worth bothering about the difference.

To get quantities right for a recipe that's one cup of something and everything else in in tablespoons etc there's a way to sort this out.

Put a mug or glass on your scales (glass is better 'cos you can mark it) and zero them. Now add water until the scales show 250grams. This is where you can stick a bit of label or sticky tape on the outside of this glass to mark the water level.

THAT is one cup

Just dry the glass off and fill it with flour or sugar (whatever) to that level and your recipe will be right.

If you happen to have a smaller glass or tumbler that comes to about 250 when full it's even easier.



Otherwise the following threads will contain other basic recipes that you can use. HTH

Can I make pizza without yeast
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=93980

How do I make pizza?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=93687

HM pasta sauces and pizza dough
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=79095

Hm pizzas
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=98756

Pizza question
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=78335

Quickest pizza ever!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=57341

gettingitsorted

Hi Guys

need some other ideas please,managed to get given alot of fresh pizza dough from work lastnight does anyone know another use for it apart from pizzas.

Dobie

I've shaped my own HM pizza dough into loaves & baked them as bread. Tastes really good, a cross between ciabatta & french bread.

HOLsale

cheesy breadsticks!

roll the dough into bread stick shape, then roll through a mix of shredded cheese and spices of choice (sesame seeds are nice) then bake til they are just golden mmmmm

you can also roll it out into a greased baking sheet then fill with mince and onions, veg of choice and any type of sauce of choice (spag bog sauce works well) then roll it up, make a few slits across the top and bake til golden

we call it stromboli though i'm sure it's not the technical term but it's close enough for us mmmmmmmmmm

otterspasm

When I was preparing to cook about 15 pizzas for a buffet a couple of years ago I made loads of pizza dough in advance and froze it uncooked. It froze really well. I just took it out when I needed it and let it defrost, then rolled it out and added topping and cooked as though fresh. Was absolutely fine. Good luck!

KizzyK_2

Garlic balls - roll the dough in to balls then roll it in a garlic and Olive Oil mix, bake for about 15 mins on gas 4/5. Yummy!

(Gas times depending on size of balls )

thriftlady_2

Roll it out into an oblong.Scatter with all sorts of things;bacon,ham,salami,cheeses,tomatoes,herbs,garlic,mushrooms,pesto,crumbled sausage,tuna,anchovies,spinach,sweetcorn,peppers,olives-you get the idea,choose a few.Roll up the dough like a Swiss roll and bake.Cut into slices,fab for lunchboxes.You could cut into slices before baking and place cut sides up on a baking tray.

I bet a sweet version would be good;chocolate,apples,bananas,butter and sugar,nuts,dried fruit.

HTH

HOLsale

otterspasm wrote:

When I was preparing to cook about 15 pizzas for a buffet a couple of years ago I made loads of pizza dough in advance and froze it uncooked. It froze really well. I just took it out when I needed it and let it defrost, then rolled it out and added topping and cooked as though fresh. Was absolutely fine. Good luck!

thanks for sharing, i've always wondered about this! how did you store it in the freezer? i have always thought oiling/greasins some cling film would work then perhaps shove a few in a large freezer bag
of you could do the oiled cling film and stack them in an old ice cream tub...
but i'm curious to hear what you did

Gingham_Ribbon

Why did I find this thread when I'm on a diet?

HOLsale

i just remembered something i used to do with 'whack-em-on-the-counter-biscuits (scones) when i still lived in the states and i'm sure you could do this with the dough too

basically you need to section the dough into balls, flattened you'd want them not much bigger than a burger

preheat your oven to approximately 180C

you make a mixture of cream cheese, walnuts (can omit but they make such a difference!) and ground dill seeds or celery seasoning (dill is best) put a dollop in the center of half the flattened dough balls then use the the other halves of the dough to top them all. be sure to press the edges together well, you don't want the filling to fall out

chop some more walnuts (or sunflower seeds or whatever) and mix with a touch of salt and some of the 'parmesan' that comes powdered in canisters (fresh doesn't come out right) techinically i think it's pecarino but you know what i mean.

then you melt some butter and add lightly sauteed finely minced garlic (or use garlic granules from lidl )

roll the balls through the butter/garlic then roll them though the cheese and nut mixture then bake until they are just golden mmmmmmmmm heaven!