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Pizza Crust

by Joyce Kohl

Pizza Crust Source: Go Inside™
This recipe created for Pizza crusts, but is also good as rolls or loaves.
Servings: Ingredients:
4 Pizza Crusts 2 1/2 cups warm water

2 packages Fleischmann’s yeast

1 T salt

1 T butter, melted (or margarine)

7 cups flour, unsifted
Directions:
  1. Sir yeast into the warm water until it dissolves. Set aside. Melt butter then add to yeast and water. Add salt to the flour, stirring well. Add to water and yeast mixture.
  1. Dough will be sticky. Knead well. Place dough in a well greased bowl, cover with a lid or towel, and let stand in a warm place until dough rises and doubles in size. When ready to make pizza crusts, divide into 4 portions.
  1. Left-over dough can be made into dinner rolls.

 

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Pizza

by Joyce Kohl

Pizza Source: Go Inside™
This recipe compiled while an Italian chef was making pizza in my kitchen.

It took a lot of experimentation by me to get this right and to write the final recipe.
Servings: Ingredients:
4 Pizzas

 

Add your favorite toppings

 

My kids loved sliced hot dogs

(Use GOOD ones!)

 

No need to let bread rise.

 

Bake any left over dough in a bread pan.

 1 large onion, finely chopped

1 green pepper, chopped or sliced

1/4 cup cooking oil

2 15-ounce cans tomato sauce and bits

1/2 can water

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

about 2 tsp salt

some pepper to taste

1 tsp garlic powder

few sprinkles oregano

few sprinkles parsley flakes

cheddar cheese, grated

mozzarella cheese, grated

1 pizza dough recipe made and set aside

See Pizza Crust recipe in this same area

toppings: Pepperoni, hamburger, sausage, black olives

corn meal
Directions:
  1. Saute onion and green pepper in oil until tender. Siphon off the oil. Add the rest of the ingredients. Cook on a medium heat until oven is preheated to 450 degrees.
  1. Take 1/4 of the bread dough. Roll out and fit into a lightly greased pizza pan. Add some corn meal to coat the pan, dumping the excess. Put 1/4 of the pizza sauce on an uncooked pizza crust. Add toppings. Don’t use too much sausage or hamburger or you’ll end up with too much grease on the pizza.
  1. Bake on middle (or top) shelf until bubbly. About 12 minutes. Remove pizza from oven, add a handful of grated cheddar cheese and at least another handful of mozzarella cheese or more. Return to oven, but this time place the pizza on the lower rack to brown the crust. Bake about another 12 minutes.
  1. If making more than one pizza (I always had to make 4!), prepare the next pizza while one is baking on the top rack and when you add the cheese to the first and put it on the lower rack, put the fresh pizza on top to begin the first 12 minutes of cooking. When pizza number one is done remove from oven and set aside, add toppings to number two, return number two to oven on lower rack, add pizza number 3 to top rack. Cut and serve pizza number one. Prepare number 4 and continue as above.

 

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Buy The Slice

I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa where most everyone can read and speak English. Little did I know that moving to New York City would not only be a culture shock to my system, but it was a language shock as well.

Written Word
A little background — I was born Deaf and I communicate in Sign Language. If I need to communicate with a Hearing person who does not use Sign, I prefer to use a pad and pencil to write my words. The written word levels the playing field of communication between Deaf and Hearing because each side must make an equal effort to get their point across.

Columbia
When my husband and I first moved to New York, we were in graduate student housing at Columbia University. We lived a block away from the cathedral of St. John the Divine and right across the street from Tom’s Restaurant (made famous in a Suzanne Vega song of the same name and made even more famous as the coffee shop on NBC’s Seinfeld comedy series).

College Pizza
There’s a place just down the street from Tom’s called College Pizza. Their food is excellent and many Columbia students eat pizza there daily. On one of our first nights in New York, I went into College Pizza alone and I had my pad and pencil in hand to place my order. I wrote down on my pad: “Two pieces of pizza, please” and the guy behind the counter nodded.

I waited and waited. Everyone ahead of me got their pieces of pizza. New people came in and got their pieces of pizza. I waited some more.

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