The History of Pizza, Ancient and Storied
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It is amazing the difference the type of "wheat" used in the flour makes for your dough.
personally for bread i have been experimenting with einkorn flour.. got 4lbs from amazon (jovial brand) and it was great. just got 10lbs of einkorn from a site called breadtopia
doing pizza dough with it next week, will relay how it comes out.
personally for bread i have been experimenting with einkorn flour.. got 4lbs from amazon (jovial brand) and it was great. just got 10lbs of einkorn from a site called breadtopia
doing pizza dough with it next week, will relay how it comes out.
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Lanx
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i have 4 doughs poof from last night, i'll start em tomorrow.
i'm gonna roll my dough, if the guy from lucali's rolls his dough, i'll roll my dough
also gonna try pizza sauce w/ some san marizano tomatoes, i'll cook the sauce this time, most said just do it out the can, idk that for me was the weakest part, i have to make my own moz again, i can't find whole milk moz.
i'm gonna roll my dough, if the guy from lucali's rolls his dough, i'll roll my dough
also gonna try pizza sauce w/ some san marizano tomatoes, i'll cook the sauce this time, most said just do it out the can, idk that for me was the weakest part, i have to make my own moz again, i can't find whole milk moz.
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Looks pretty good! You are right that you shouldn't use a rolling pin, you want to stretch it by hand with a specific technique. As for the bottom not cooking at the correct rate, that is much harder and one of the limitations of a home oven. The best solution I've found is using a pizza steel near the top of an oven at max temp and blasting it with the broiler for 15 minutes right before the pizza goes in.
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yea i don't like the flopping side of palm motion, it gets kinda messy, i like doing this w/ the knuckles, whatever it's called and just letting the weight of the dough stretch it out.
yea i think i'm at the point where in order to get the nice bottom crust i need it at 700f, at that point it's probably pizza oven time.
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Exclusive | Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%
New York City is even targeting beloved pizza pie in a bid to curb carbon pollutants — drafting new rules that would require pizzerias that use coal and wood burning ovens for decades to curb…
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Dystopian Hellhole Experiment adds more draconian laws to see just how far they can go before people leave.Exclusive | Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%
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Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza
Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else
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'Pizza' painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii
A fresco that depicts what might be an ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found on the wall of an house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's Culture Ministry said on Tuesday.
In a blog describing the find, the culinary archaeologist Farrell Monaco noted that mensa is also Latin for table, and that the poet Virgil described eating the meal in The Aeneid: “After Aeneas and his men eat their meals off the flatbread, they remark, ‘Oh, look! We are eating our tables too!’”
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It's not Pizza if no tomatoes, it was probably more like a cheesy garlic bread.'Pizza' painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii
A fresco that depicts what might be an ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found on the wall of an house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's Culture Ministry said on Tuesday.www.reuters.com
In a blog describing the find, the culinary archaeologist Farrell Monaco noted that mensa is also Latin for table, and that the poet Virgil described eating the meal in The Aeneid: “After Aeneas and his men eat their meals off the flatbread, they remark, ‘Oh, look! We are eating our tables too!’”
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If the italians say it's a pizza, then it is a pizza. They invented the damn thing, they get to say what it is.
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By the way, one of the pizza recipes I saw from the 16th century involves... sugar and honey toppings.
Yes, Pizza as a pastry dessert (to be fair, Italian renaissance involved putting sweet stuff on everything).
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