[Sca-cooks] OOP Pizza Dough
Christiane
christianetrue at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 4 14:48:09 PST 2008
Message: 5
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:11:31 -0600
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP Pizza Dough
As an experiment, I made some pizza dough last night using semolina flour,
which the bag touts as being good for pasta, pizza and bread. Right. Pasta
and semolina bread maybe.
I used about a 2:1 mix of semolina to AP flour and had to increase the
liquid in the dough by about a half cup to get the dough to mix properly
Semolina (0 fine), while very high in protein, is too grainy to produce a
nice texture to the dough and the flavor doesn't mesh well with the olive
oil in the dough. I might be able to alter the texture by using 00 fine or
by using a 1:4 mix of semolina 0 to AP flour. The taste is another matter.
I'm wondering if butter or egg yolk might prove to be a better choice.
I'll revisit this experiment again, but for now, I think I'll stick to
regular flour for my pizza dough.
Bear
********************************************************
Semolina flour is great for a deep-dish or Sicilian-style sfincione, but you're right, it's not so good for a thin crust Neapolitan or traditional pizza.
When I make pane riminciato, I use 5 cups of semolina flour and two and a half cups of white flour. After the first rise, I knead it with as much olive oil as the dough will absorb and lots of sea salt. If I am going to make bread with it, I shape the dough into loaves and let them rise before baking. If it's pizza dough, though, I will make my flat rectangles in a cookie sheet and bake them until they're slightly golden, and then put on my toppings and bake again. Or I will push ingredients into the dough for a more traditional sfincione, in that case I'll let the dough rise before baking.
Definitely a different texture, but good in its own way.
Gianotta
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list