Sicilian pizza from Lehmann dough ball

I scaled a Lehmann dough to 1.95 lbs. for another attempt at a Sicilian pizza in my 11”x17” steel pan. The steel pan was oiled with corn oil and the dough was left to proof in the pan for one hour. The resulting pizza was very good. It browned nicely on the bottom crust and did have a nice texture with a good taste in the crust. My regular Sicilian dough pizza for market it a little lighter in texture though.


Norma

Next attempt at a Papa Gino's clone attempt

The first pictures include a picture of right after the PG clone dough ball came right out of cold storage (with measurement of the poppy seed spacing). The PG clone dough ball came out of cold storage at 1:45 pm and was used to make a pizza at 3:00 pm. The PG dough ball warmed-up at 73.9 degrees F for the 1 hr. 45 minutes, which was the ambient temperature of where the dough ball was warming up. The second picture of the poppy seed spacing was right before I opened the dough ball.



I thought I had all the papers with the instructions along at market yesterday, but somehow must have forgot the one with the amount of sauce to use. I used 8 ounces of sauce on my attempt yesterday instead of the 6 ounces I should have used. I did weigh out the cornmeal and did use almost of that this time. The 3 cheese blend was also weighed out. It can be seen how little of the Romano is added to the blend. The PG clone attempt right out of the oven weighed 1 lb. 14.2 ounces, but then I added the wrong amount of sauce. I really didn’t know how much sauce I had added last week until I got home last evening.

 am not sure why, but the PG clone attempt yesterday did get more oven spring in some places on the top rim crust. The PG clone attempt was very tasty with the cheese blend, the texture of the crust, taste of the crust and with the addition of the cornmeal when opening the dough ball. Steve, Randy, Lorie, me and the old flea mill market manager enjoyed this pizza. I had to really chuckle when the old mill flea manager tasted the PG attempt. He said right away that this pizza tasted like a Papa Dino’s pizza. I laughed and he asked me if I remembered the old Papa Dino’s pizza and I said yes I did, but this is a whole different kind of pizza. The old mill market manager said the good tasting stringy cheese is what reminded him of the old Papa Dino’s pizza.

All in all the attempt went well, but dang I did have to get the sauce amount wrong. I am going to print out a separate sheet with instructions on for next week. I think the bottom crust was a little too dark, but that is how my oven baked the PG clone dough. The pizza was a little soft and tender when eaten. I sure don’t know if that is how it is supposed to be or not, because I haven’t ever tasted a real PG pizza.

Norma

The many doughs baked into pizzas in Steve's WFO and my two beer doughs, made with Pizzeria flour

I had a great time at Steve’s beer brewer’s picnic yesterday and my experimental doughs did turn out okay when baked into pizzas, but I don’t know if I would try the same doughs again.


I guess I didn’t study enough about adding beer to dough. I didn’t realize that the dough would be drier, so I guess I should have either added more beer, or water, to the formulations I used. I could tell when opening the two beer doughballs that the dough did feel drier than a regular 60% hydration with Pizzeria flour, but the dough balls did open okay. The first beer dough pizza I made was with the Elysian Bete Blance beer. That pizza also had some chili oil that I had made with chili I purchased at the Asian store. I don’t know why the dough made with the V8 beer had a darker rim crust after baking.

Marco’s dough did work okay to when made into a round pizza. It was very light and had a good taste. I gave one dough ball to Steve to see if he wanted to try it in a pan. The other dough ball is still in my fridge and has a big bubble on top this morning.

Many of the people that attended the beer brewer’s picnic did make their own pizzas in Steve’s WFO and some brought their own dough. Others used Steve’s dough. Frank brought his crazy dough that he turned into really good pizzas. I liked Frank’s shirt that said flour child. Frank rolls out his dough, then hand stretches it and forms edges on it. I still don’t understand how Frank just cuts off a piece of dough from the big dough mass and it doesn’t give him any stretch-back. Some of his pizzas he par-baked, then added a lot of toppings. Steve’s one neighbor brought his Reinhart doughs and those pizzas were really good baked in Steve’s WFO. There were no rules on how anyone made the pizzas and it is fun to watch how everyone makes their pizzas. There were a lot of pizzas made that I didn’t get pictures of. Many people brought their own dressings for the pizzas. I really like the apple, walnut pizza.

There were many kinds of pizzas that came out of Steve’s WFO with many people making them. It become cool when the sun was starting to set.

It was a beautiful day to have a home brew brewers picnic and I got to try many different beers that I had never tasted before. Thanks Steve for inviting me! I ate way too much pizza and other foods.  I had so much fun watching everyone make their different styles of pizzas.  There were many different levels of pizza makers at the party.  Frank makes the dough for the Fridge Pizzeria in Lancaster, Pa and also makes the flatbread pizzas.

http://beerfridgelancaster.com/ and the Fridges Flatbread Pizzas http://beerfridgelancaster.com/pizza  Frank also homebrews many kinds of beer.

I think a WFO can bake almost any type of pizza well.  All the homebrews we drank were also very good.  
Norma

First set of pictures are of the beer dough made with Elysian Bete Blanche beer.  This beer dough did have chili oil added after the bake.  The chili oil was just made with chili's from the Asian store.  The chili oil was spicy, but not too hot.

Beer Dough Pizza from the homebrewed V8 beer Steve gave me.

Marco's 75% hydration dough pizza made with 50/50 Power Flour and Mondako Flour

Various other pizzas made and some of the various pizza makers.  Also other pictures of Steve's beer brewing club picnic and pizza party.