No Bread Maker

by Alley
(high Island, TX, US)

Having no bread maker makes pizza-making a challenge. This is the most difficult obstacle I have faced in cooking.Making bread can be so tedious and I used to never know how the dough was going to end up.

Yeast is a tricky ingredient to deal with. If the pinch of yeast is off, even by a little, the crust doesn't turn out quite right. But like with all recipes, practice makes perfect.

After many attempts of kneading and rising, I finally got it right. I found that perfect concoction of ingredients. I found that rolling the dough out to make the crust is more easily done on a big wooden cutting board, using lots of flour to prevent sticking.

My best discovery has been that if I hold the cutting board with on arm, put the pizza pan on the other arm, and flip - it is so much easier than throwing the dough in the air, right?

I'm glad I kept trying until I got it right.