Re: I have a problem. How to bake >

I am trying to bake something at home still not sucessful.

> > Procedure: > 1. Flour + Water > 2. Make into dough > 3. Flattened the dough, bake inside oven until light brownish. > > The problem is it becomes too hard. I want inside like the pizza texture.. > outside crispy. > > How to make the texture softer ? > > Thanks. > > Ding >

Not sure if you're serious, but assuming you are, the problem here is you have no leavening. For a pizza texture, you're going to need more than flour and water. Yeast will be your key. And when you use yeast, you'll need to feed it...so you will need a tiny amount of sugar as well...and I would have a bit of salt for flavor. So let's see....we have let's say 1 cup of warm water (warm for the yeast). Sprinkle with 1 pkg active dry yeast, then gently stir in about 1/2 tsp sugar. Let it "proof"...which is to say prove the yeast is good. Basically this means you're going to let it set in a warm area for 10 min or so, until it begins to bubble. If it doesn't bubble at all in 10 minutes, check the date on the yeast.

Sift about 3 1/2 cups of flour (all purpose unbleached) into a bowl with a tsp of salt. Add in the yeast mixture and stir/beat until it forms a stiff dough. Turn onto a floured countertop, pastry board, table, whatever. Knead

5 minutes or so. To knead, fold the dough in half towards you, then push with the heel of your hand away from you. Turn 1/4 turn and repeat. After 5 minutes, it should be smooth and elastic. If it's very sticky, sticking to your hands or whatnot, just dust in some extra flour.

Grease a bowl big enough to hold the dough 3 times over. Place the dough in, then flip it so it's coated with shortening. Cover with a towel and set in a warm place. Let rise until doubles insize. Press into shape and bake 15-20 min.

kimberly

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Nexis
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This is technically not true - yeast likes starch just fine. It's not as readily edible to yeast as sucrose, but carbohydrates are sugar polymers and your dough can rise with no added sugars. Maybe not as fast, but this could be considered an advantage.

Indeed, the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana demands that true Neapolitan pizza dough contain nothing but flour, yeast, and water. Additionally, that it must be shaped by hand without a rolling pin, and baked on the surface of an exclusively wood-fired oven with no pan.

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Eric Jorgensen

thanks everyone,

I have successfully done it :)

yeast + flour + water

Regards TSDing

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TSDing

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