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I made my first pizza dough tonight

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Ingredients

Pizza dough

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• 1\xbd cups warm water
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• 1 pinch caster sugar
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• 2 teaspoons dried yeast
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• 4 cups plain flour
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• 1 teaspoon salt
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• \xbc cup olive oil
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Pizza topping

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• Salami
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• Tomato paste
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• Dried basil
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• Bocconcini
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• Mushrooms
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Instructions

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1. In a glass mixing bowl add the water, sugar, and yeast. The sugar is optional but provides fuel for the yeast to consume as part of the blooming fermentation.
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2. Whisk the suspension of yeast and allow the yeast to bloom.
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3. In another glass mixing bowl add the flour and salt and then make a well and add the olive oil.
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4. Add the bloomed yeast to the olive oil in the flour well and mix everything with a spatula until it forms a smooth ball of dough.
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5. Gently knead the dough into a ball.
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6. With a brush, oil the inside of a glass mixing bowl and add the ball of dough and oil the surface of the dough.
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7. Seal the glass mixing bowl with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm spot for 30 minutes so the dough proves. This could take a lot longer, e.g., maybe 3 hours.
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8. Sprinkle flour on to a board and then tip out the proved dough onto the board.
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9. Form the dough into a log with your hands and cut into three even-sized pieces.
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10. Roll the dough flat and then top with tomato paste, and your choices of cured meats, fungi, vegetables, and cheeses.
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11. Put into a hot oven and cook until the dough has cooked through.
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Plating up bit

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1. Remove the pizza from the oven and cut it into slices.
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2. An Italian would use one of those fancy pizza cutters.
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3. I use a Chinese meat cleaver.
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