Be honest: how many times have you ordered a pizza and when it comes, and you’re eating it, you think, “This tastes like nothing.” Then you start to think that you paid, what, 8 pounds for it, 15 or so pounds if you got two, and it tastes like… nothing. Plus you have to get rid of those boxes. The whole scenario is annoying. And the only reason you did it was to save time because you got home late from the stable or the skating rink and it was all you could think of. Well, that can be history. All you have to do is invest a little bit of time and a little bit of kneading, and a really fabulous pizza is in your future. Trust me: if you hate to cook, have scrambled eggs, but if you like to cook at ALL, don’t order another pizza, just do this:
Pizza at Home
(serves four today and four later in the week)
4 cups “strong flour”, like Hovis, plus more for dusting
2 cups-ish warm water
1 sachet powdered yeast (Hovis fast action…
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(serves 4)
4 William pears, peeled and the bottoms sliced off so they stand up
1 cup hard cider, or Perry
2 cinnamon sticks
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
clotted cream
shortbread cookies
Place the pears into the saucepan and pour in the cider, drop in the cinnamon sticks and scatter over the sugar. Put the lid on and bring to a boil, then simmer for 15 minutes, turning the pears over twice, on their sides in the liquid. Then remove them to a dish, turn up the heat and boil the liquid until it’s reduced to a syrup, perhaps 10 minutes. You’ll have to remove the pan from the heat and let the bubbles settle down to see what you have. If it’s darkish and thick, you’re good. Set aside until you’re ready to serve. At serving time, drizzle the syrup over the pears, and serve with a spoonful of clotted cream to each person, and a couple of shortbread biscuits.
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