Grandma Pizza

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2012, Cook's Country TV

Grandma pizza is well-known and loved on Long Island, but like some grandmas, it doesn’t get out much. We wanted a recipe good enough to introduce to the rest of the country.

SERVES 4

TIME 1 hour, plus 1¾ to 2¼ hours rising

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Using bread flour and lengthy kneading gave us the open-structured chewy crust we wanted, but it was difficult to stretch. Proofing the dough on the same oiled sheet pan that we were using to bake the pizza allowed it to stretch on its own ...

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