It’s CHEESE Grommit! Cheese! Did you know Wisconsin makes cheese? My kids are very aware of this and somewhat obsessed with cheese, so as one of our final activities for Wisconsin geography lesson we made a pizza. When we originally made our homemade pizza dough recipe, we used the recipe from the back of the book we read, but today I’m going to share our homemade pizza dough recipe. All in all, this is a huge hit as a geography lesson.
The book we read (and got our original homemade pizza recipe from)
Extra Cheese, Please! goes through step by step how the milk goes from being milk to cheese, and even includes some fun scientific facts (which is going to be a science experiment soon enough).
At the back of the book is a recipe for making your own homemade pizza. The kids were very excited about this, and they were also excited they had friends coming to spend the night, so we made this for our friends.
My recipe for making homemade pizza dough
- 3 1/2- 4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1.5 teaspoon yeast
- 1 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
All right, let’s make some pizza dough!
- Mix the flour, sugar, yeast, and salt together.
- Add the water and oil together and mix well.
- Knead until smooth.
- Put in bowl covered in oil and let rise for 1-2 hours.
- Roll out and cover with toppings.
- Bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes.
Pizza dough
A quick and easy pizza dough to make up and use with your family and friends for delicious homemade pizza.
Ingredients
- 3.5-4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1.5 teaspoon yeast
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1.5 cups warm water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
- Mix flour, sugar, yeast, and salt together.
- Add water and oil and mix well.
- Knead until smooth
- Put in bowl covered in oil and let rise for 1-2 hours.
- Separate into balls for the size of pizza you want and roll out to desired thickness and then cover in toppings of your choice.
- Bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes, longer if the dough is thicker or you have a large pile of toppings.
Here’s what happened when we first made our homemade pizza
Superman was quite kind enough to roll out our homemade pizza dough for me. I finished it off. I never quite figured out how to roll it quite circular or rectangular (as you can see, 8 years later I’m still working on that, of course, I’m only recently trying this idea again). I also had it crust up a little while it was rising, so I have a few kinks to work out (that is solved by covering the bread as its rising with cling wrap. We doubled the recipe in the back of the book and ended up with enough to make two meals for us. The first meal fed my family plus three more kids. The second meal was me, the kids, and Aunt Tara.
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