Yield: makes 2 – 12 inch pizzas
St. Louis Style Pizza
Dough:
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons olive oil
Directions:
1. Combine flour, cornstarch,, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
2. Combine water and oil in a liquid measuring cup.
3. Stir water mixture into flour mixture until dough starts to come together.
4. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and knead 3 or 4 times, until cohesive.
To roll and bake dough:
1. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position, place a pizza stone on rack and heat oven to 475 degrees.
2. Divide dough into 2 equal pieces.
3. Working with 1 piece of dough at a time, press dough into a small circle, and transfer to parchment paper dusted lightly with flour.
4. Using a rolling pin, roll and stretch dough to form a 12 inch circle, rotating parchment paper as needed.
5. Transfer parchment and pizza dough to inverted baking sheet.
6. Top each piece of dough with sauce ( sparingly), cheese. and your favorite toppings.
7. Carefully pull parchment paper and pizza off baking sheet onto hot baking stone.
8. Bake until underside is golden brown and cheese is completely melted, 9-12 minutes.
9. Carefully remove pizza from stone to inverted baking sheet or large cutting board and cool.
10. Cut into 2- inch squares.
SAUCE:
Use your favorite pizza sauce. I use about 1/4th of a small jar of sauce but I also use a 1/4th of can of diced tomatoes for each pizza. (Drain the juice from the diced tomatoes.)
CHEESE:
Use your favorite cheese or combine cheese you like. St Louis Style uses:
2 cups shredded American cheese
1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
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This is the pizza I made for Wil’s birthday in 2013 when I was visiting my sister Faith in VA. I made the dough and Truman, Austin and Caitlin put on their favorite toppings. A fun party idea.
Faith was busy making Shrimp tacos which I will post at a later time. I took this recipe from Cook’s Country BEST Country Recipes. These are tested recipes so all you do is enjoy!
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