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From the first floor, Professor Hadley leads the way down to the kitchens where we'll get started with the main portion of the lesson, which is very hands-on (basically meaning that discussion shall happen whilst you work!)
Spread out on each of the five tables are various workstations that were pre-set before you arrived. By each workstation consisted of: a pizza stone and french rolling pin. Along with various food items: a jar of red pasta sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, olive oil, garlic salt, dried oregano, sugar, yeast, salt, and flour. And of course measuring spoons and cups, along with the necessary bowls.
"First things first, we need to make the dough. Now I don't normally recommend using magic in this class, but I'll make an exception for getting the necessary amount of water, you may use the aguamentis charm."
"Which ingredients do you think we need at your workstation for making the dough?"
Lesson Progression {for this thread anyway}
Answers for above and recipe for making dough! Go make your dough now /nopunintended
Dough has risen.... moving onto the kneading, though more discussion as we do; why do we add garlic salt and oil to the dough?
Finishing touches on pizza prep: sauce, cheese, toppings, etc. You have about 8-10 hours from the time of the post to get the pizzas ready and in the oven ;D
And pizzas are done! Eat and enjoy! Don't forget to save a sample for the Professor so you can get credit =)
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It was time for another question from the Professor. Jasmine was eager to contribute to the conversation because her last answer apparently had not gone over to well. Taking a stab at the why do we add flour a little at a time question, she raised her hand.
"If we added the flour all at once, it would be more difficult to mix adequately. We'd be likely to end up with a big gloppy mess with little flour clumps throughout the dough."
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Kace was listening to the professor move on. She asked an interesting question about the flour. She wondered what would happen if you put too much in? He smiled and raised his hand and said, "Professor I think if you put too much flour at once, it would be really hard to knead the dough or even mix the dough..."
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Simon frowned when he heard that Candice was allergic to sugar. Aw, no! But quickly enough Professor Hadley had reassured her that they could make dough without sugar if it was a problem. Good, good, he thought as he copied down the next set of notes that Professor Hadley had written about sugar in his notebook.
After writing down those notes, he listened to her next set of questions.
Oh Merlin. Uh..
Why was there salt in pizza dough? Hmmm.. Perhaps it had something to do with the yeast and sugar stuff!? That could work. He raised his hand. "Would the salt affect the rate at which the yeast consumes the sugar? And if so, this could mean that the dough would have a more consistent fermentation," he said.
As for flour...
He didn't really know. So he took a guess. No harm every came with guessing, right? "With too much flour added, wouldn't the dough not rise enough?" If they had an increased concentration of flour would that affect the rate of fermentation? Simon blinked. He had no clue.
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Okay his sugar guess was right but now wait...why salt and why did they have to add flour a little at a time? Cris scratched his forehead as he listened to some of the others share their answers. He smiled proudly as Jasmine shared hers. That girl really did know a lot about cooking and baking stuff.
Cris decided to hazard another guess. What the heck right? They were here to learn. Raising his hand, Cris gave his answer.
"Professor, I think we add salt just for the flavoring, to give the crust some taste instead of just that chalky taste," Cris answered before pausing to think why flour was slowly added at a time.
"Um...and we add the flour slowly, so that it is mixed in well and the dough doesn't get all clumpy, you know with air bubbles and lumps of flour. I guess you want to give the yeast enough time to rise naturally?" Cris shrugged making an educated guess.
....and that was why he always stood aside to let his mother and sisters do the cooking.
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Honestly, Lux had very limited experience baking and cooking so this stuff wasn't the easiest for her. Of course she loved food, but that didn't mean she prepared it. Hmm, maybe she should have her mom teach her some things so that she could make things for her and Bay. Raising her hand, she guessed at the answers. "I'd assume that the salt is for flavour because salt is added to a lot of foods for flavour." This was something she knew, because she sometimes added it to food before eating. "And I think the flour is added a little at a time so that it mixes in smoothly and no bits of powder remain. Because no one wants to eat powdery crust." She sure didn't!
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Cooking isn’t and probably will never be his expertise, even if he excelled in Potions. Ethan got his notebook and pen and started to write down more notes. Muggle notes, he reckon, is the most useful thing in the world. Makes him less stupid and stuff, you know? And it seems that cooking and baking is not a bad thing to learn. This topic meant food. And food makes Ethan happy, so there’s that.
So why salt? Ethan tilted his head and turned to their dough. Sure, it has something to do with taste, yeah? But if they were going for flavour, they should have added more. An idea struck the boy’s brain. Hand up. “Professor? Does it help keep the dough intact? Like…water?” Just a guess. It doesn’t make much sense to the boy, but based on his deductions, that just might be the answer. “As for adding the flour little by little…um…because it’s easier to spread the ingredient evenly while mixing the dough?” He wasn’t sure, but according to his observation while mixing the stuff, that seemed to make sense.
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Oh, so an older Slytherin girl agreed with her? Cool. Hiiiii snakey. She figured it was a safe bet to take that everybody loved sugar. If they didn't then they were just weird. More questions? Errr... she wasn't really sure why certain things were added. Taking a moment to think before answering she raised her hand. "I think the salt is added for flavor and to balance out the sugar maybe. If you added too much flour too soon then you will have a powdery mess and nobody likes cleaning." Seemed legit to her.
How much time had passed again? Her dough wasn't looking promising. The first year looked around to see how the other's looked, and well it didn't look good for her.
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Poor Candice. Adi could not imagine being unable to eat anything with sugar. Speaking of which...he was craving a Sugar Quill.
Sugar is added to bake the dough and give it a brown colour. Got it!So the purpose of salt? Hmmm... "Is it just for flavour, Professor?'' he asked his hand in the air. "And as for the flour, I think we add it slowly because it's easier to mix that way and also when mixing it would not become lumpy.'' Meaning there won't be little lumps among the dough.''
Angel raised her hand. "Well there's the fact that if you add too much flour at once then everything is going to go all floury and probably wouldn't mix well and so it would be all lumpy." Angel had a feeling it wouldn't taste right.
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SPOILER!!: Lottie and Hadley
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But, but... well, this was rather tricky. Lottie wasn't about to just give up her work, and she was almost positive Grayson wouldn't either, guess that leaves Lex without pizza. Her best friend shouldn't worry, really, Lottie could make one for her, and her alone, some other time. Sorry, bestie, no food for you.
Good thing she got that chocolate, eh?
As far as Hadley's question was concerned... Lottie raised her hand, "Yes, sugar is some sort of food for the yeast, it's particularly useful if you're planning on storing some dough for later, though," yet they weren't going to do that, so it must be all about the taste, "It also gives it a certain taste, very nice one." Wisterias didn't add too much sugar to anything, but well, yeah.
She was just following instructions here.
Hi, boyfriend. Her eyes caught his and she smiled at him, widely, and even winked once. There's really nothing to worry about, so please don't.
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Could she look any more miserable?? Actually, she could. So, Lottie sighed and turned to Grayson, wearing her most perfect smile, "Do you mind giving the dough you've made to my best friend, Grayson Whitlock? I think we...," both her and the Slytherin, "...could work together very well, and I'd really appreciate such a gesture."Wink. Seriously, Lex was looking so terrible right now. Be a gentleman, Grayson, Lex was letting you live. "Plus, I know what I'm doing." This wasn't the first time she was making pizza, you know?
Also, she could thank him later...
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Hadley just listened first to see what they had to say about why sugar. Obviously some of them didn't know, but some had good ideas (and possibly the right ones!)
She wrote some notes on the board as she heard them :
* Help dough rise / catalyst for the yeast
* Make dough easier, slightly softer to roll out
* Gives it a nice brown colour. Carmelization.
* For the flavour / sugar tastes good
She shook her head in amusement at the Gryffindor Prefect when she tried to plead against working alone. Really it wasn't THAT bad and it wasn't as if she couldn't ask for help if she required it. She had a room of full peers there as well as a professor (who actually cared if she passed!) so working alone wasn't as bad as she was making it look. Surely she'd realize that?
"Yes, sugar has the dual purpose of acting as a catalyst for the yeast to allow the dough to rise, but also it helps to bake the dough and give it that nice brown colour. It should NOT affect the flavour of the pizza dough extensively ... and if it does, then you probably added too much sugar." Hence why the recipe only called for a small amount of sugar.
Hmm? Candice was allergic to sugar? Was that a real thing? Like was that even a possibility? She bit her lower lip, shaking her head. "It's only a very small amount of sugar added, Candice, but are you truly unable to have any sugar at all?" she asked quietly to the small first year. "Because we can make some dough without any sugar?" It wouldn't take too long.
15 minutes down. She eyed her wristwatch.
"As you know from the sugar ingredient, yeast is used to make the dough rise. So then, what is the purpose of the small amount of salt we add? Is that for flavour? Also, why only add a little flour at a time - if we add too much flour what do you think will happen?"
Alexa continued nibbling away at the chocolate bar she'd nicked a little earlier. Her interest in most other things waning. How much longer would this class be before she could ask a house elf to bake her a pizza? Or have Lottie make her one, because she would right? Lex wasn't naive enough to think Lottie would up and volunteer her own pizza and Grayson who was admittedly very good people might have had grand plans for his own dough.
Her brow rose as Lottie made an attempt at securing the boy's dough but that was about all the reaction she gave before taking another bite out of her chocolate. Next time, could they learn about something like telephones? Or ...or...anything. Anything was better than being in a kitchen where you were meant to get things done efficiently for yourself.
Grayson's lack of immediate response turned her attention back to the Professor who was asking about salt and flour.
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This was possibly worse than History of Magic and she never thought it'd come to that. Was it possible to be so clueless in a subject that had nothing to do with History? She didn't know OKAY????
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Text Cut: Drama llama?
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"Such a terrible waste of the last minute you have, don't you think?" She mused, feigning a tone of contemplation, as if she could think of severel things more interesting to do in one's final minute in this world. "I'll agree with you there though. Nothing tremendously interesting when it comes to being a ghost. It's so...limiting." The tone of contemplation continued as she idly went about sprinkling the flour in his hair--until he retaliated with flour of his own, flicked right at her face. Makings a war right here, if she ever saw one. "I would miss you, but only because you've got a brain and fewer and fewer people are being born with them." Shame really.
What he said next was actually worth a laugh. "I do stand out, though not for the right reasons." But she couldn't complain. After Jessa was born and her Aunt screwed up her kids Lex became the favourite so...no skin off her back. "Lottie moreso than me." Lex admitted. "I don't care as much about what you say so long as you're not stupid." Because Lex was tolerant, see? Though Merlin knew her definition of stupid differed from the standard meaning but shhh.
Lex leaned against the counter nibbling at the chocolate after Lottie had taken the piece offered to her. The Gryffindor had long stopped taking her candy to Muggle Studies and most classes for that matter. Whether sitting in her bag or her pocket, the temptation would be too great. If you didn't want to play with fire you left the matches back in your Common Room, no? And Grayson was understanding. He had not lived til he had a pizza dessert, especially Lottie's.
She gave a small nod. He just figured they knew each other. Was that all? Far less interesting than anything she'd imagined but nothing more could really be said he was being called over by Cutty and the Professor was saying something....to her?
Did she need her ears cleaned? Lex's lips parted for her to respond but the Professor simply went on until she dropped the bomb that in fact Lex HADN'T heard. When did THAT become a rule? She'd seen the notice board for Muggle Studies. Making your own pizza had never been a requirement and she didn't think the Professor could go adding rules at the last minute. Rules that would ensure she didn't eat.
She tried explaining that she was in no way set back but the Professor was STILL going on, this time about her working alone??? "But Professor." The beginning of some serious whining there. She couldn't work by herself. That was the whole point of her grabbing a group as fast as she did--hjsdxgfigutrsi!! Was the Professor hearing herself? Both Grayson and Lottie had been making plans for their pizza, she highly doubted that either of them who had spent so much time on their dough would just willingly give it up so she could eat.
That was it, wasn't it? She wasn't going to eat? This class just got even more painful.
The now very dejected Lioness, slumped against the side of the counter she was at, elbow resting against the table and her palm propping her head up. Could the Professor see how miserable she looked now? COULD SHE? Naturally she didn't know the answer--why anyone did anything in the kitchen was beyond her. "Because sugar tastes good so why not." That was all she had to offer as she watched Grayson join them once more.
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But, but... well, this was rather tricky. Lottie wasn't about to just give up her work, and she was almost positive Grayson wouldn't either, guess that leaves Lex without pizza. Her best friend shouldn't worry, really, Lottie could make one for her, and her alone, some other time. Sorry, bestie, no food for you.
Good thing she got that chocolate, eh?
As far as Hadley's question was concerned... Lottie raised her hand, "Yes, sugar is some sort of food for the yeast, it's particularly useful if you're planning on storing some dough for later, though," yet they weren't going to do that, so it must be all about the taste, "It also gives it a certain taste, very nice one." Wisterias didn't add too much sugar to anything, but well, yeah.
She was just following instructions here.
Hi, boyfriend. Her eyes caught his and she smiled at him, widely, and even winked once. There's really nothing to worry about, so please don't.
HONESTLY.
Could she look any more miserable?? Actually, she could. So, Lottie sighed and turned to Grayson, wearing her most perfect smile, "Do you mind giving the dough you've made to my best friend, Grayson Whitlock? I think we...," both her and the Slytherin, "...could work together very well, and I'd really appreciate such a gesture."Wink. Seriously, Lex was looking so terrible right now. Be a gentleman, Grayson, Lex was letting you live. "Plus, I know what I'm doing." This wasn't the first time she was making pizza, you know?
Also, she could thank him later...
THINGS WERE GOING DOWN.
Despite how much he liked drama and looking into it, something told him that this wasn't going to go well. At least not for him. His eyebrows furrowed as he looked between Hadley, Lex and Lottie. What even? Couldn't they go ahead with the system they had? It seemed to work pretty well for them. She was going to get the smallest pieces. It was PERFECT.
But nooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!
And then Lottie was speaking and.............
SAY WHAT?!
No. No no. HE had to give up HIS pizza?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN. Dejected, he opened his mouth to argue this point and say that there was NO WAY he was going to give up the dough he had been working SO hard on but Lottie was continuing. And there was a wink too. That seemed to add points in the column that talked about the pros of giving his dough up to Lex, right alongside the points that this was LEX and that he was sure she would hex him into another century if she walked out of here on an empty stomach.
"Fine. FINE, you can have my dough." And cue a smile for the Gryffindor Prefect. "You owe me big time, Cambridge." Wink. He pushed the bowl towards her.
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"As you know from the sugar ingredient, yeast is used to make the dough rise. So then, what is the purpose of the small amount of salt we add? Is that for flavour? Also, why only add a little flour at a time - if we add too much flour what do you think will happen?"
Oh there was a question too. About salt and flour. Salt question came first soooo, Grayson raised his hand to answer that one. "Dough without salt tastes bland. If you have a pizza crust that doesn't have salt in it, you can instantly tell that something's not right." Uh huh. "And besides, doesn't it help keep the dough not so sticky?" Because the last thing HE wanted was for a sticky dough.
"I heard something about a water to flour ratio." That was all. He didn't understand it too much sooooooo he wasn't going to say anything else on that.
OOOH more questions she knew could guess the answer to! Waving her hand in the air, Norah said "The salt makes all the flavors more...intense." She was going to say flavorful but that wouldn't make sense, so intense worked, right? Hmm and flour? She knew from experience that it made the dough hard to mix or too dry and stuff, but she wasn't sure if that was what the professor was looking for. Continuing on anyway, she said "If you add the flour all at once you won't know if you added too much and it could get dry. Plus it's really hard to mix and gets everywhere." That part she held in vivid memory, because flour can be impossible to get out of curly hair, yep.
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More questions. Marigold looked at her dough again, urging it to RISE FASTER because she was actually getting hungry. Ahem. "Salt is for the savory aspect because otherwise it would taste sweet." Probbbbbably not true but what she always thought. "And if you add all the flour at once, it wouldn't be mixed in and would make it all floury and icky." Experience, yo.
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Okay, so sugar wasn't used to make the pizza TASTE better, which made little to no sense to Sophie. Oh, well. Sugar was still good, no matter what. Also, whoever this Candice girl was was allergic to sugar? How BAD can your luck be?! Sophie was glad that wasn't her.
Salt? Hmm... Sophie raised her hand. "Because salt makes bland food taste better, and there's ingredients in pizza that might be bland if we don't add salt," she said. And, oh--there was another question, too. "Do we only add a little at a time, so we can test it and make sure we don't add too much?" She had no idea what would happen if they added too much. "Does too much flour cause you to have too much crust on your pizza? Because the crust part is gross unless it's stuffed with cheese."
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Text Cut: catching up on dough making *puts it under here*
Once the salt was stirred in, Penelope added in a 1/2 cup of flour carefully mixing it in. That definitely wasn't enough to make it all form into dough though, so she added a second and a third cup when it seemed right. Now it was finally starting to not stick to the sides of the bowl, but she thought a fourth cup would help more, so she added it and mixed it in. Definitely dough-like now. Perfect.
She grabbed another bowl, gave it a quick spray of cooking spray, and then picked up the dough and placed it gently into it. Now to cover it and wait for it to rise.
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1 1/2 cup warm water
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon. yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
3-4 1/2 cups flour
Step One: Using one of the bowls at your workstation, combine the water, sugar, and yeast. Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes (or until yeast is bubbly) Step Two: Add salt and stir. Step Three: Add 1/2 cup flour and mix well, gradually adding more flour (usually no more than 3-4 1/2 cups) until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and no longer sticks to your fingers. You'll want to add just 1/2 a cup at a time. Step Four: Spray the other bowl with cooking spray and place dough in the bowl. Step Five: Cover and allow the dough to rise for 45 minutes, or until its doubled in size.
Thankfully there was at least a little something to do during the time it took to wait for the dough to rise up. Penelope didn't feel like answering though, so she kept her hand down for the sugar and the salt question, just sorta listening to some of the other students give their thoughts on them.
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And if we add a little flour at a time the dough is softer! "
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Well, why does anyone add salt to anything? "The salt adds a little bit of flavor, makes the dough taste less like cardboard." And there was nothing worse than having a pizza crust that tasted like cardboard. Unless the whole pizza tasted like that, of course.
As for why they added the flour slowly....... "If you add too much flour to the dough, it'll become all dry and crumbley. Adding it slowly is a way of preventing that." And the Gryffindor with the oil and water answer was getting a 'what the....?' look from her. "Don't you spread the oil on top of the crust once you roll it out? So, salt wouldn't really make the impossible happen, right?" The impossible being oil and water mixing, of course. And you could blame the small Gryffindor and Layla's own dislike of stupidity for that question.
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SNORT. "It's cool. It's only dough." Wink. Don't fret, young one. "I'm gonna head back before Hadley notices buuuuuut," He lowered his voice. "I'll share my pizza with you if you share yours with me too." Pizza party in the boy's dorms. Just saying.
Cutty didn't think they were talking about Pizza. These words of Whitty's had the distinct feeling of reciprocity to the younger Slytherin.
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Okay his sugar guess was right but now wait...why salt and why did they have to add flour a little at a time? Cris scratched his forehead as he listened to some of the others share their answers. He smiled proudly as Jasmine shared hers. That girl really did know a lot about cooking and baking stuff.
Cris decided to hazard another guess. What the heck right? They were here to learn. Raising his hand, Cris gave his answer.
"Professor, I think we add salt just for the flavoring, to give the crust some taste instead of just that chalky taste," Cris answered before pausing to think why flour was slowly added at a time.
"Um...and we add the flour slowly, so that it is mixed in well and the dough doesn't get all clumpy, you know with air bubbles and lumps of flour. I guess you want to give the yeast enough time to rise naturally?" Cris shrugged making an educated guess.
....and that was why he always stood aside to let his mother and sisters do the cooking.
Cutty's brows furrowed in thought as he turned to the older Hufflepuff boy and did his utmost to hide the excitement for what this could mean. "Will it really taste like chalk?!" And would Bart eat it? This was USEFUL information, Cris. Cutty neeeeded to know.
H'mm, actually maybe eyecandy over there (Simon) would eat it. He was from the continent as well. Just like Bart.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising
Hadley just listened first to see what they had to say about why sugar. Obviously some of them didn't know, but some had good ideas (and possibly the right ones!)
She wrote some notes on the board as she heard them :
* Help dough rise / catalyst for the yeast
* Make dough easier, slightly softer to roll out
* Gives it a nice brown colour. Carmelization.
* For the flavour / sugar tastes good
She shook her head in amusement at the Gryffindor Prefect when she tried to plead against working alone. Really it wasn't THAT bad and it wasn't as if she couldn't ask for help if she required it. She had a room of full peers there as well as a professor (who actually cared if she passed!) so working alone wasn't as bad as she was making it look. Surely she'd realize that?
"Yes, sugar has the dual purpose of acting as a catalyst for the yeast to allow the dough to rise, but also it helps to bake the dough and give it that nice brown colour. It should NOT affect the flavour of the pizza dough extensively ... and if it does, then you probably added too much sugar." Hence why the recipe only called for a small amount of sugar.
Hmm? Candice was allergic to sugar? Was that a real thing? Like was that even a possibility? She bit her lower lip, shaking her head. "It's only a very small amount of sugar added, Candice, but are you truly unable to have any sugar at all?" she asked quietly to the small first year. "Because we can make some dough without any sugar?" It wouldn't take too long.
15 minutes down. She eyed her wristwatch.
"As you know from the sugar ingredient, yeast is used to make the dough rise. So then, what is the purpose of the small amount of salt we add? Is that for flavour? Also, why only add a little flour at a time - if we add too much flour what do you think will happen?"
Holding to the hope of the idea that dough tended, in general, to taste terrible until cooked, Cutty put his hand in the air and made the following, "I'm going to agree that it's to do with the flavour. Salt gives it flavour and allows the dough to be able to taste..." Cuthbert's inappropriate word was not so much ignored as stowed away for a later more opportune time in which to use it and he found a more suitable, if not plain one to use in it's stead whilst addressing his teacher. "...Good with whatever you might put on the pizza."
Alexa continued nibbling away at the chocolate bar she'd nicked a little earlier. Her interest in most other things waning. How much longer would this class be before she could ask a house elf to bake her a pizza? Or have Lottie make her one, because she would right? Lex wasn't naive enough to think Lottie would up and volunteer her own pizza and Grayson who was admittedly very good people might have had grand plans for his own dough.
Her brow rose as Lottie made an attempt at securing the boy's dough but that was about all the reaction she gave before taking another bite out of her chocolate. Next time, could they learn about something like telephones? Or ...or...anything. Anything was better than being in a kitchen where you were meant to get things done efficiently for yourself.
Grayson's lack of immediate response turned her attention back to the Professor who was asking about salt and flour.
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This was possibly worse than History of Magic and she never thought it'd come to that. Was it possible to be so clueless in a subject that had nothing to do with History? She didn't know OKAY????
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THINGS WERE GOING DOWN.
Despite how much he liked drama and looking into it, something told him that this wasn't going to go well. At least not for him. His eyebrows furrowed as he looked between Hadley, Lex and Lottie. What even? Couldn't they go ahead with the system they had? It seemed to work pretty well for them. She was going to get the smallest pieces. It was PERFECT.
But nooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!
And then Lottie was speaking and.............
SAY WHAT?!
No. No no. HE had to give up HIS pizza?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN. Dejected, he opened his mouth to argue this point and say that there was NO WAY he was going to give up the dough he had been working SO hard on but Lottie was continuing. And there was a wink too. That seemed to add points in the column that talked about the pros of giving his dough up to Lex, right alongside the points that this was LEX and that he was sure she would hex him into another century if she walked out of here on an empty stomach.
"Fine. FINE, you can have my dough." And cue a smile for the Gryffindor Prefect. "You owe me big time, Cambridge." Wink. He pushed the bowl towards her.
Oh there was a question too. About salt and flour. Salt question came first soooo, Grayson raised his hand to answer that one. "Dough without salt tastes bland. If you have a pizza crust that doesn't have salt in it, you can instantly tell that something's not right." Uh huh. "And besides, doesn't it help keep the dough not so sticky?" Because the last thing HE wanted was for a sticky dough.
"I heard something about a water to flour ratio." That was all. He didn't understand it too much sooooooo he wasn't going to say anything else on that.
See? Between Lottie's words and Lex's miserable act (though it wasn't really an act, she was feeling entirely awful for this, no doubt), they technically got Grayson to do their work for them. Or Lex's, at least.
This was rather interesting, indeed. And L-Squared was falling short because there is just SO MUCH MORE they can accomplish. They have to work on this.
Unfortunately, Grayson's acceptance meant that they wouldn't get to work as a group anymore. Certainly, the Gryffindor and the Slytherin could keep on bickering all they wanted, Lottie wouldn't mind. But yes, technically, it was Grayson and herself from now on. "Thanks for offering, that's so nice of you." She said, when he'd agreed. Not when he had offered to give his dough to Lex, because he never did, we know that. He was still getting smiles for complying.
Speaking of smiles, why was her boyfriend's so small. She returned it just because.
As far as salt goes, she probably had nothing more to add.
Beverly glanced down at her dough. It seemed to be doing okay. Oh, who was she kidding, it was doing wonderfully. She's done this enough times to feel confident in her baking abilities.
Glancing back up, she pursed her lips in thought. Salt, in her books was for one purpose and one purpose only. The reason she loves food. "Taste," she said, raising her hand. "Salt is needed for taste or else the crust will taste bland no matter what toppings it has." As for the flour: "I believe flour is added little by little to avoid bubbles in the dough or clumps." Clumpy dough was no good. Imagine biting into that?
Hadley just listened first to see what they had to say about why sugar. Obviously some of them didn't know, but some had good ideas (and possibly the right ones!)
She wrote some notes on the board as she heard them :
* Help dough rise / catalyst for the yeast
* Make dough easier, slightly softer to roll out
* Gives it a nice brown colour. Carmelization.
* For the flavour / sugar tastes good
She shook her head in amusement at the Gryffindor Prefect when she tried to plead against working alone. Really it wasn't THAT bad and it wasn't as if she couldn't ask for help if she required it. She had a room of full peers there as well as a professor (who actually cared if she passed!) so working alone wasn't as bad as she was making it look. Surely she'd realize that?
"Yes, sugar has the dual purpose of acting as a catalyst for the yeast to allow the dough to rise, but also it helps to bake the dough and give it that nice brown colour. It should NOT affect the flavour of the pizza dough extensively ... and if it does, then you probably added too much sugar." Hence why the recipe only called for a small amount of sugar.
Hmm? Candice was allergic to sugar? Was that a real thing? Like was that even a possibility? She bit her lower lip, shaking her head. "It's only a very small amount of sugar added, Candice, but are you truly unable to have any sugar at all?" she asked quietly to the small first year. "Because we can make some dough without any sugar?" It wouldn't take too long.
15 minutes down. She eyed her wristwatch.
"As you know from the sugar ingredient, yeast is used to make the dough rise. So then, what is the purpose of the small amount of salt we add? Is that for flavour? Also, why only add a little flour at a time - if we add too much flour what do you think will happen?"
Looking down at her dough again, Leah listened to the professor's question. She was determined to answer this one because she missed out on the previous discussion. Groan. Raising up her hand, the second year said out a guess. "I think the little amount of salt balances out the flavor, and... I don't really know anything about the flour." Meh that was lame. There was a little Lioness allergic to sugar? Poor her.
He wasn't sure the answers to the questions being asked. All he knew was that pizza was being made and that was all the fifteen year old cared about at the moment. weather ingredients were added for flavor or texture all he knew was it tasted amazing in the end so Who cares!?
... any volunteers to start a fire? *twitches* Kidding ... or not? *glances around*
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This was awesome.. and so far all Bay wanted to do was to eat the pizza.. why couldn't he just do that now.. *le sad face* Raising his hand "I think we add the salt for it attracts the water and keeps the dough moist?" he lowered his hand to think about it for a second and then kept his hand down for he didn't know the reason for the other question..
CAN HE JUST HAS THE PIZZA!!!!! he was so hungry now his stomach was growling very loud he was pretty sure anyone could hear it.
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So, had Tag gotten that right? He hoped so. Yes? He'll just go with yes. Now the next question. He could either go for the salt or the flour, or both. Yes, both. "I think the salt is pretty much there for a seasoning ingredient type of way. The dough would taste pretty stale, like old bread, if it didn't have any?" He said.
Onto the flour question now. "I also think we add in a little flour at a time because if we add it all in at once into the dough mixture it would all clump together. You know, like when you put flour on a cutting board, it makes the ingredients spread out more evenly and from getting stuck together. Then it'd be extremely hard to take it apart. May need water or something and then you've pretty much ruined it all."
So, Tag was going with the 'flour spreads out the texture of the dough and keeps it from clumping together' answer. Mhm. Were the forty five minutes already up? Yes? No. We hope so.
Oh, yes, we saw that girlfriend, so Tag just gave her a small smile.
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Zander took out his quill and started taking down some quick notes. Except his messy workspace was definitely not helping the effort. The kid was getting flour all over his parchment... Eh, whatever. He'd just have to try to remember all of this stuff. Which was going to be difficult considering all the things Hadley just mentioned.
SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. GAH. Can't they just eat pizza now? Like order in or something? "If you add to much flour, wouldn't the dough be a lot harder to roll out and stuff?" Plus, that probably wouldn't make for a yummy pizza. Mhm. But really Zander had know idea what any of the ingredients would do to it. Pizza is pizza. And that's all Zander could think about. What? He's a growing boy okay.
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It was time for another question from the Professor. Jasmine was eager to contribute to the conversation because her last answer apparently had not gone over to well. Taking a stab at the why do we add flour a little at a time question, she raised her hand.
"If we added the flour all at once, it would be more difficult to mix adequately. We'd be likely to end up with a big gloppy mess with little flour clumps throughout the dough."
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Kace was listening to the professor move on. She asked an interesting question about the flour. She wondered what would happen if you put too much in? He smiled and raised his hand and said, "Professor I think if you put too much flour at once, it would be really hard to knead the dough or even mix the dough..."
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Simon frowned when he heard that Candice was allergic to sugar. Aw, no! But quickly enough Professor Hadley had reassured her that they could make dough without sugar if it was a problem. Good, good, he thought as he copied down the next set of notes that Professor Hadley had written about sugar in his notebook.
After writing down those notes, he listened to her next set of questions.
Oh Merlin. Uh..
Why was there salt in pizza dough? Hmmm.. Perhaps it had something to do with the yeast and sugar stuff!? That could work. He raised his hand. "Would the salt affect the rate at which the yeast consumes the sugar? And if so, this could mean that the dough would have a more consistent fermentation," he said.
As for flour...
He didn't really know. So he took a guess. No harm every came with guessing, right? "With too much flour added, wouldn't the dough not rise enough?" If they had an increased concentration of flour would that affect the rate of fermentation? Simon blinked. He had no clue.
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Okay his sugar guess was right but now wait...why salt and why did they have to add flour a little at a time? Cris scratched his forehead as he listened to some of the others share their answers. He smiled proudly as Jasmine shared hers. That girl really did know a lot about cooking and baking stuff.
Cris decided to hazard another guess. What the heck right? They were here to learn. Raising his hand, Cris gave his answer.
"Professor, I think we add salt just for the flavoring, to give the crust some taste instead of just that chalky taste," Cris answered before pausing to think why flour was slowly added at a time.
"Um...and we add the flour slowly, so that it is mixed in well and the dough doesn't get all clumpy, you know with air bubbles and lumps of flour. I guess you want to give the yeast enough time to rise naturally?" Cris shrugged making an educated guess.
....and that was why he always stood aside to let his mother and sisters do the cooking.
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Honestly, Lux had very limited experience baking and cooking so this stuff wasn't the easiest for her. Of course she loved food, but that didn't mean she prepared it. Hmm, maybe she should have her mom teach her some things so that she could make things for her and Bay. Raising her hand, she guessed at the answers. "I'd assume that the salt is for flavour because salt is added to a lot of foods for flavour." This was something she knew, because she sometimes added it to food before eating. "And I think the flour is added a little at a time so that it mixes in smoothly and no bits of powder remain. Because no one wants to eat powdery crust." She sure didn't!
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Cooking isn’t and probably will never be his expertise, even if he excelled in Potions. Ethan got his notebook and pen and started to write down more notes. Muggle notes, he reckon, is the most useful thing in the world. Makes him less stupid and stuff, you know? And it seems that cooking and baking is not a bad thing to learn. This topic meant food. And food makes Ethan happy, so there’s that.
So why salt? Ethan tilted his head and turned to their dough. Sure, it has something to do with taste, yeah? But if they were going for flavour, they should have added more. An idea struck the boy’s brain. Hand up. “Professor? Does it help keep the dough intact? Like…water?” Just a guess. It doesn’t make much sense to the boy, but based on his deductions, that just might be the answer. “As for adding the flour little by little…um…because it’s easier to spread the ingredient evenly while mixing the dough?” He wasn’t sure, but according to his observation while mixing the stuff, that seemed to make sense.
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Oh, so an older Slytherin girl agreed with her? Cool. Hiiiii snakey. She figured it was a safe bet to take that everybody loved sugar. If they didn't then they were just weird. More questions? Errr... she wasn't really sure why certain things were added. Taking a moment to think before answering she raised her hand. "I think the salt is added for flavor and to balance out the sugar maybe. If you added too much flour too soon then you will have a powdery mess and nobody likes cleaning." Seemed legit to her.
How much time had passed again? Her dough wasn't looking promising. The first year looked around to see how the other's looked, and well it didn't look good for her.
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Poor Candice. Adi could not imagine being unable to eat anything with sugar. Speaking of which...he was craving a Sugar Quill.
Sugar is added to bake the dough and give it a brown colour. Got it!So the purpose of salt? Hmmm... "Is it just for flavour, Professor?'' he asked his hand in the air. "And as for the flour, I think we add it slowly because it's easier to mix that way and also when mixing it would not become lumpy.'' Meaning there won't be little lumps among the dough.''
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Text Cut: Drama llama?
THINGS WERE GOING DOWN.
Despite how much he liked drama and looking into it, something told him that this wasn't going to go well. At least not for him. His eyebrows furrowed as he looked between Hadley, Lex and Lottie. What even? Couldn't they go ahead with the system they had? It seemed to work pretty well for them. She was going to get the smallest pieces. It was PERFECT.
But nooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!
And then Lottie was speaking and.............
SAY WHAT?!
No. No no. HE had to give up HIS pizza?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN. Dejected, he opened his mouth to argue this point and say that there was NO WAY he was going to give up the dough he had been working SO hard on but Lottie was continuing. And there was a wink too. That seemed to add points in the column that talked about the pros of giving his dough up to Lex, right alongside the points that this was LEX and that he was sure she would hex him into another century if she walked out of here on an empty stomach.
"Fine. FINE, you can have my dough." And cue a smile for the Gryffindor Prefect. "You owe me big time, Cambridge." Wink. He pushed the bowl towards her.
Oh there was a question too. About salt and flour. Salt question came first soooo, Grayson raised his hand to answer that one. "Dough without salt tastes bland. If you have a pizza crust that doesn't have salt in it, you can instantly tell that something's not right." Uh huh. "And besides, doesn't it help keep the dough not so sticky?" Because the last thing HE wanted was for a sticky dough.
"I heard something about a water to flour ratio." That was all. He didn't understand it too much sooooooo he wasn't going to say anything else on that.
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SPOILER!!: Lottie and Hadley
Alexa continued nibbling away at the chocolate bar she'd nicked a little earlier. Her interest in most other things waning. How much longer would this class be before she could ask a house elf to bake her a pizza? Or have Lottie make her one, because she would right? Lex wasn't naive enough to think Lottie would up and volunteer her own pizza and Grayson who was admittedly very good people might have had grand plans for his own dough.
Her brow rose as Lottie made an attempt at securing the boy's dough but that was about all the reaction she gave before taking another bite out of her chocolate. Next time, could they learn about something like telephones? Or ...or...anything. Anything was better than being in a kitchen where you were meant to get things done efficiently for yourself.
Grayson's lack of immediate response turned her attention back to the Professor who was asking about salt and flour.
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This was possibly worse than History of Magic and she never thought it'd come to that. Was it possible to be so clueless in a subject that had nothing to do with History? She didn't know OKAY????
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More questions. Marigold looked at her dough again, urging it to RISE FASTER because she was actually getting hungry. Ahem. "Salt is for the savory aspect because otherwise it would taste sweet." Probbbbbably not true but what she always thought. "And if you add all the flour at once, it wouldn't be mixed in and would make it all floury and icky." Experience, yo.
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Okay, so sugar wasn't used to make the pizza TASTE better, which made little to no sense to Sophie. Oh, well. Sugar was still good, no matter what. Also, whoever this Candice girl was was allergic to sugar? How BAD can your luck be?! Sophie was glad that wasn't her.
Salt? Hmm... Sophie raised her hand. "Because salt makes bland food taste better, and there's ingredients in pizza that might be bland if we don't add salt," she said. And, oh--there was another question, too. "Do we only add a little at a time, so we can test it and make sure we don't add too much?" She had no idea what would happen if they added too much. "Does too much flour cause you to have too much crust on your pizza? Because the crust part is gross unless it's stuffed with cheese."
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Lucy thought:"Salt? .." Then she raised her wand and she said:" The Salt mixes better the water with the oil!
And if we add a little flour at a time the dough is softer! "
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Well, why does anyone add salt to anything? "The salt adds a little bit of flavor, makes the dough taste less like cardboard." And there was nothing worse than having a pizza crust that tasted like cardboard. Unless the whole pizza tasted like that, of course.
As for why they added the flour slowly....... "If you add too much flour to the dough, it'll become all dry and crumbley. Adding it slowly is a way of preventing that." And the Gryffindor with the oil and water answer was getting a 'what the....?' look from her. "Don't you spread the oil on top of the crust once you roll it out? So, salt wouldn't really make the impossible happen, right?" The impossible being oil and water mixing, of course. And you could blame the small Gryffindor and Layla's own dislike of stupidity for that question.
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Cutty didn't think they were talking about Pizza. These words of Whitty's had the distinct feeling of reciprocity to the younger Slytherin.
Cutty's brows furrowed in thought as he turned to the older Hufflepuff boy and did his utmost to hide the excitement for what this could mean. "Will it really taste like chalk?!" And would Bart eat it? This was USEFUL information, Cris. Cutty neeeeded to know.
H'mm, actually maybe eyecandy over there (Simon) would eat it. He was from the continent as well. Just like Bart.
Holding to the hope of the idea that dough tended, in general, to taste terrible until cooked, Cutty put his hand in the air and made the following, "I'm going to agree that it's to do with the flavour. Salt gives it flavour and allows the dough to be able to taste..." Cuthbert's inappropriate word was not so much ignored as stowed away for a later more opportune time in which to use it and he found a more suitable, if not plain one to use in it's stead whilst addressing his teacher. "...Good with whatever you might put on the pizza."
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Beverly glanced down at her dough. It seemed to be doing okay. Oh, who was she kidding, it was doing wonderfully. She's done this enough times to feel confident in her baking abilities.
Glancing back up, she pursed her lips in thought. Salt, in her books was for one purpose and one purpose only. The reason she loves food. "Taste," she said, raising her hand. "Salt is needed for taste or else the crust will taste bland no matter what toppings it has." As for the flour: "I believe flour is added little by little to avoid bubbles in the dough or clumps." Clumpy dough was no good. Imagine biting into that?
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Looking down at her dough again, Leah listened to the professor's question. She was determined to answer this one because she missed out on the previous discussion. Groan. Raising up her hand, the second year said out a guess. "I think the little amount of salt balances out the flavor, and... I don't really know anything about the flour." Meh that was lame. There was a little Lioness allergic to sugar? Poor her.
A girl named Leah wanting to eat pizza here.
Hadley was listening to the student replies as she willed time to move faster ... wasn't there a way to make dough rise faster? She was pretty sure there was a spell for that. Of course it probably had side effects but you know. Uh what was the question she'd asked again? Ah right, about salt.
"Salt as you may or may not know is a mineral substance composed of sodium and chloride; now the chemical history behind the substance isn't so important for this class, at least," other classed they took it might be, but she wasn't interested in it. "Salt, like sugar, can be omitted from the dough recipe yet it often is utilized as its not much. The main role of salt is for flavor, as many of you said, though it also plays a role in the dough's elasticity and texture. It ultimately creates a stronger dough that feels less sticky so it is extremely helpful in the stretching of the dough when forming the crust."
"Just as sugar is food for the yeast, salt regulates the consumption rate, creating a more consistent fermentation. It allows for the gluten to become more fully hydrated and prevents the dough from over fermenting quickly." Yes, this probably seemed unimportant and boring, but it was quite the contrary, especially considering how many were interested in actually EATING decent pizza. "If the dough ferments too much or too quickly, then there will be less sugar left over to caramelize the dough when baking, thus lacking that golden brown crust we all love. So in essence, salt is critical to the end result of a tasty crust."
"A crust without salt will seem bland and takes away from the overall experience of the toppings. Not to mention that one of salts principles is that it holds water. Holding water is critical to keeping a moist and fresh dough. Without salt, the bread becomes dry and stale within a few hours of baking; effects that cannot be slowed or reversed."
Glancing around at their dough, she nodded in approval. "It seems, we're just about there for the next part - the rolling of the dough." She paused, waiting... "There's two options for this; if you like thinner crusts, then you should use the rolling pin to roll out your dough onto the round pizza stone. However, if you prefer a thicker crust, then kneading it with your hands is best. Yes, if you're daring, you may try tossing it into the air. But if you drop it on the floor, then we're not trying yours..." That was a joke. Maybe. "The ovens are preheating now to 425, while we knead our dough. Once your dough is kneaded or hand-tossed into a round circle, prick it with a fork in various locations a few times throughout the dough. This process will help to oxidize the dough and keep it fresh. Drizzle your dough with olive oil and garlic salt. Why do we do that?"
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It was time for another pizza question from the Professor. Jasmine raised her hand to take a stab at the answer. "Olive oil and garlic salt both add flavor to the pizza crust. Drizzling olive oil helps the crust to have a golden color after it is baked and it can also help it to have some crispness to it if the crust is thin."
Jasmine thought about what type of crust she might like to have for her pizza. Then she continued to write notes, condensing all of the information that the Professor had provided. She also had to figure out how she and Cris would divide up the next tasks for making their pizza.
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Benny had no clue as to why sugar would be needed in such a savory meal. And he wasn't sure the exact reason for salt in the recipe other than giving some taste to the dough. So he had stayed quiet while some of his classmates had offered answers up to the questions, simply listening to what was being said and jotting down what Professor Hadley said in response. Especially what was deemed as the overall answer that was needed.
Then it seemed like they had waited the required time and it was about when they should be moving onto the next step in the cooking of the recipe. That would be the rolling or kneading of the dough. Simple enough...though they did have a minor complication in having a choice of types of crust. The third year looked over at Angel since she was a partner in all this.
"Thick or Thin?" he asked her as he gingerly took their dough out of the bowl that it had been allowed to rise in. His hands placing it lightly on their round pizza stone, patting it down a little as he waited for an answer. She could even make the first move.
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