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  • Elaine’s Made-from-SCRATCH Rising Crust Pizza

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    Elaine’s Made-from-SCRATCH Rising Crust Pizza
    Prep: 20 min Cook: 60 min Servings: 8
    by Elaine
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    Prep 20 bake 60 serves 8 A delicious yeast-raised crust, and hearty toppings make this a pizza with pizzazz!

    Ingredients

    • For Pizza Dough:
    • 2 cups whole wheat flour
    • ¾ cup warm water (for yeast)
    • 1 tsp raw sugar (for yeast)
    • 1 pkg traditional Bakers’ yeast
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 1 tsp pepper
    • 2 tbsp parsley
    • 4 tbsp melted creamery butter with extra for coating crust edges
    • The Fixin’s:
    • Diced tomato
    • Pizza sauce (canned is fine)
    • Sliced shallots (about 7)
    • Red, green, yellow & orange sweet bell peppers, diced
    • Black olives
    • Green olives
    • Grated carrot
    • Old cheddar cheese
    • Medium cheddar cheese
    • 1 medium sized zucchini squash
    • pepperoni, about 4 sticks, chopped coarsely
    • polish sausage, sliced
    • 6 –8 slices crisp bacon, torn to small pieces
    • 4 Velveeta cheese slices, for outer crust rim
    • coarse salt

    Directions

    1. Prepare the yeast in the warm water and sugar
    2. Let work
    3. Make the pizza dough:
    4. Mix all dry ingredients together
    5. Add yeast
    6. Add melted butter
    7. Knead about 5 minutes, gently
    8. Let dough rest 5 minutes
    9. Form the base crust:
    10. Roll the dough to size preferred, or work by hand, or air-toss
    11. Preheat oven to 375*F
    12. The ‘building blocks’:
    13. Liberally coat with pizza sauce, leaving one inch blank on outside edges
    14. Form a ‘lip’ of dough on all sides
    15. Break apart the Velveeta cheese slices
    16. Place on outer edge of dough all the way around
    17. Roll edges in to form a neat rim.
    18. Coat rim with butter on edges to seal
    19. Add remaining ingredients listed in whatever order you prefer, but save cheeses to last
    20. After adding the cheeses as illustrated, sprinkle with coarse salt
    21. Bake until the crust is firm, golden, and the cheese is well melted
    22. Let the pizza rest about 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
    23. ENJOY! :+D

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