HM Pizza Base Recipes Tips and Quick Questions

zippychick

Hi Loshy, found an old thread that may help you. Cooking without scales

Good luck!

Not ideal, but this may help as you can convert Grammes etc into tablespoons? Of if it is mainly flour you are measuring, I would lookat the sixe of the packet - so if you need 500g and the bag is a kilo, you need half a bag? In Economy gastronomy the guys made a see saw kind of scales as they didnt have any. So if you needed 500g of flour, get something that weighs 500g, and balance it out?.......

loshypops

thanks guys i'll see what comes of it lol! fingers crossed!!x

paulwf

You're meant to weigh the ingredients? Oops! lol

I just do it by feel to make the base...put a packet of dried yeast in the mixing bowl, a drop of oil (tablespoon approx), pinch of salt, sprinkle of sugar (tablespoon approx) then some bread flour (make sure it is bread flour not normal flour). You know how much the bag of flour weighs so use half or a quarter etc depending on what recipe you use. Add luke warm water until a dough is formed.

If you have made too much dough then roll the spare into small balls and you have some rolls for lunch tomorrow If you don't have quite enough just roll the base a bit thinner, thin crust pizzas are nice.

Only Delia wannabes need scales *ducks*

culpepper

I do a big bread base.
1litre jug filled with bread flour.
300ml of luke warm water.
1 tea spoon of dried yeast
This goes in the bread maker but you can do it by hand too ,just add a little bit of sugar to the water then sprinkle in the yeast and wait till it froths then add to the flour... or you can mix the flour and water and add the yeast at that stage without any sugar (dried allinsons yeast in the tins) and give a good kneading, push into pizza dish and leave till risen then bake with toppings on.
You get good results with the baking parchment from poundland, it helps the pizza to come away cleanly from the pizza dish.

loshypops

wow everyone! thanks i'm going to get cracking now and see what mess i can make!

loshypops

did not mention before but this is my first HM doughy thing ive ever made since home ec!!! eek!

Jem8472

I love making home made pizza! Its great, just make sure you knead it well, When I started doing them at home, they were ok but I have found out that kneading the dough for a longer time helps improve the texture. I would say about 5-10mins kneading time.

loshypops

Righty-o! I've done m mixing and kneading and its now sitting in a cupboard covered with clingfilm and *peeks* not rising.......

loshypops

think i may have made waaaaay to much dough lol! I've split it and made dough balls/buns - i dont know how they will turn out but if they are rubbish my OH will neverknow as they will be done before he gets home hehehehe!

And going to start pizza in about an hour - can i freeze what extra dough i have?? I've just also realised I do not own a rolling pin - im not of to a good start am i......poop.

zippychick

Yes you can freeze the leftover dough! This is a good thread - adventures with dough

Do you have a glass jar or bottle? Im sure there is something!