COOKING WITH YOUR OVEN

There are different styles of pizza dough. High-grade-flour dough can stretch and capture more air bubbles but if handled too roughly result in a tough pizza. This dough gives a chewier pizza with more crunch in the crust and requires a little more water than plain-flour dough. Plain flour gives you a lighter dough for a pizza that is soft and has less rise.

The Italians use tipo 00 flour (available through specialty food stores). Other options are half highgrade and half wholemeal flour for a more wholesome pizza base, or