Pizza!

In Term 2 we found out how to make bread the traditional way, by hand.  We also looked at how bread is made in a bakery that services supermarkets, where the bread-making and packaging processes are done by machine.  To celebrate all the learning we have done in Term 3 we decided to make pizza for our lunch on the last day of school.  We made the bread by hand, cooked our bases, then added our toppings and cooked them again.  We finished up with a brownie and a slice of apple.

Thanks to Leanne, Jodie and Roxy for all their help.

Jodie's Pizza Bases

1 and 1/4 cups warm water

3 Tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon dried yeast granules
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups wholemeal or white flour (we used 2 cups white and one cup wholemeal)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Dissolve sugar in warm water, sprinkle yeast granules over.  Add oil and stir gently.  Stand for 5 minutes.  Once mixture looks bubbly or foamy, add remaining ingredients, mixing baking powder in to one cup of flour so it spreads evenly through the mixture.
Stir mixture until dough comes away from sides of bowl and forms a ball.  Knead for a few minutes till dough is smooth, then flatten the dough onto well oiled baking sheet either as one large pizza or 5-6 smaller round ones.  Leave to rise 5-15 mins and bake for 12-15 mins at 230c.  Can be frozen at this stage till needed.



MW's Brownies

185g butter

280g energy chocolate, broken roughly

1 and ½ cups caster sugar

3 teaspoons vanilla

3 eggs

1 and ½ cups plain flour (or Gluten-free mix for wheat-free brownies)

Melt butter and chocolate in pan over low heat, watching carefully and stirring a little so it doesn't burn. Remove from heat, stir in sugar and vanilla.  (Cool slightly so eggs don’t cook as you add them).

Quickly add lightly beaten eggs one at a time, then flour.

Pour into baking paper-lined long or square tin and bake in moderate oven 30 mins.  Cool in tin, then cut.