~ Fry Bread Pizza Crust ~

From: William Clifford (wobh@thark.barsoom)
Subject: Regular Pizza crust from the Macho Gourmet
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Date: 2001-01-18 21:42:42 PST
    

Real fry bread is flour, lard, and water fried in more lard. I use some yeast and use olive oil instead.

This is from memory but it's so simple that it's probably all right and it's hard to screw up (not like the cornbread crust).

• Three cups flour
• One pkg of yeast (alternatively, 3 teaspoons of baking powder)
• dollop olive oil
• One cup of warm water.

Proofing yeast is for sissies. Mix everything, Knead a bit. Roll into a ball and smear the surface with more olive oil. Then cover with the bowl and let sit for twenty minutes while you read ARK. After that come back and beat the hell out of it. Punch, knead, roll, punch, knead, roll, smear with olive oil and teach that dough a lesson. Remember that scene in _Fight Club_ when Edward Norton fucks up that guy's face? Do that. Finally, roll it flat. Toss it in the air and show off although if you've done your job it's too tough to be showy. But smear on olive oil and it's ready to do whatever you want with it.

Here's what I do.

Roll flat. Real flat. Press down into an oiled 12 inch pizza pan and then curl up the sides so that they are high and thick where the middle is thin. Go ahead and make it like paper thin. This is what you beat the fuck out of it for. Smear with olive oil and bake until the middle is hard (300-325F for ten minutes or less). Then pour on the sauce. I like my sauce real liquidy and I like a lot of it. Top it off with whatever. Bake some more.

Not for wimps. And like I said, this greatly improves after a night in the fridge.