Yay there were getting closer to actually baking the pizza. Cris listened carefully as Professor Hadley gave them a choice of using a rolling pin or kneading with their hands to roll the dough. Could they try tossing it? Now that was a great idea. Yes he was good at tossing stuff but Cris decided that for now, since they were supposed to eat what they had baked that it would more practical to use the first two methods she suggested.

Ahhhh...and here's another question? Why drizzle olive oil and garlic salt on to the dough? Cris figured he'd hazard another guess. Raising his hand, he shared his thoughts.

"Professor, could drizzling the olive oil and adding garlic salt over the dough help make it easier to stretch the dough and maybe make the crust nice, thick and chewy? The garlic salt could also add to the taste and flavor of the pizza."

Now that he had shared his thoughts, Cris turned to Jasmine. "So what would you like me to do, Jasmine. These hands are prepared to do anything," Cris asked his girlfriend. Yes she was the cook between the two of them. She would know which task he would be able to undertake without making a mess of it.

Adi opted for the thinner dough. Yep, that was pretty much how he preferred his pizza, anyway. So he got the rolling pin, placed the dough on the stone and began to roll it out. As he did this, he thought of his answer. Pausing to raise a hand in the air, the third year answered. ''For flavour and colour. The garlic salt does the first and the oil does the second.'' Now back to rolling the dough.

Okaaaay. Adi's dough wasn't that round. Ugh! He tried to level it out in places until he was satisfied it was round. Sort of. Mostly. Haha. What was next? Oh yes! Use the fork to poke the dough. The boy did just that. What's next, Professor?

Quick question!
 

Finally, onto the next step. They were nearly there to put the toppings and then put it in the oven and then hopefully to eat decent pizza. This is what Tag had been waiting on.

So Tag listened as Hadley went on and on about the sugar and salt. He supposed they should learn a little bit more about it since they were using it. And to people the sugar may seem like a really random ingredient.

Now, onto the dough part. They could knead it or roll it out depending on how they preferred their pizza. Tag liked his with a bit of fluff, thicker. He knew what kneading looked like but a question popped into his head as his knuckles working on the dough, turning each side every few seconds after working on it equally. "If we like thicker crust, and have to knead it, do we roll it out afterwards or just keep it however it is once we believe it's kneaded well enough?" They probably didn't need to roll it out? But this was something Tag had never remembered seeing from his father.

"I think the olive oil gives it that slightly browning crust, so it doesn't just look like bland white crust. And the garlic salt gives it flavor, perhaps. Again, so it doesn't taste boring, bland." Tag answered as he worked on the dough.

Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, the Gryffindor was nearing the end of her chocolate. No chocolate and no pizza. This was clearly a sign, she just needed to find out what it was saying. Perhaps that she should drop Muggle Studies or face.....THIS.

Lex stared at the chocolate, as if trying to will it to last longer than it currently was but her eyes drifted back to the Slytherin as he began to speak. She could have his dough? Lex grinned even after him mentioning her owing him. "You won't be disappointed--though you might be with the dough. I reckon I should apologize before I get my hands on it. You'll forgive me, won't you?" Of course he would, they were buds. It'd have taken more to change that. Sandwiches in the kitchen sealed all deals. Obviously. This was legit now whether Grayson liked it or not.

Lottie got a nudge and a smile in thanks for getting her a dough so she wouldn't have to start again. Thank you very much Lottie for saving her from starvation, even if only temporary and exaggerated starvation. Ahem.

Oh and they'd be kneading the dough now? Lex wasn't going near the oven. This was muggle studies, no magic allowed, no levitating the pizza into the fire hot oven but she would do this kneading thing.

She didn't know what type of crust Grayson preferred but if he wanted this thing tasting even half decent he'd appreciate her using a rolling pin instead of attempting this with her own devices. The Gryffindor grabbed the pin and began beating at the dough, whacking it over and over until she was sure it was dead until it looked like a lump of dough with holes in it.

Erm....it didn't LOOK like a pizza crust....."Help?"

Salt could do all that? Cutty imagined that it had even more uses outside of Muggle Food Transfiguration. Wouldn't hurt to start keeping some on his immediate self if going into an experimental zone. He lifted his quill and dirtied it with a bit of flour as he took the time to write: Research, Magical Properties of Salt.

Cutty searched for a rolling pin. It was his personal preference that dough and breadly items be of the flatter, thinner sort. Not that he would object to a roll, he just liked thin crust. He pulled out one pin, took one look at it, rejected it, then pulled out another which appeared to be exactly like the one before. Only this one he kept for use when they'd rolled out their dough. Raising his hand then, he offered an answer to Professor Hadley's question, "Maybe it helps with even cooking. If it's cooked in the oven then we obviously can't interfere once the cooking process has begun as we could with something cooked over a stove, so those things probably help ensure one side of the pizza doosen't coom out all black whilst the rest is almost uncooked."

... help? He's hopeless
 

Cris
 

Jasmine thought about the best way to divide up the remaining tasks. Turning to Cris, she said, "I can give the dough a try. "How about after that you poke some holes in the dough with a fork. Then you can drizzle the olive oil on it and sprinkle the garlic salt."

Jasmine put the pizza stone in front of them and removed the cover from the bowl containing the dough. She decided to go with the thick crust and forego the rolling pin. Taking the big ball of dough out of the bowl, she began to knead it. Pushing the dough forward with the heel of her hands, Jasmine then pulled it back toward her with her fingertips. Back and forth she went, kneading the dough over and over until she felt that it was ready.

Finally Jasmine began to spread the dough out and stretch it into a circular shape. Bigger and bigger she made it until it started to resemble a real pizza crust. Carefully pinching around the edges, Jasmine tried to finish off the pizza crust. There would be no tossing the crust, not by her anyway. She just saw that as a disaster waiting to happen so she left it alone. When she felt that she had done the best that she could, Jasmine turned it over to Cris. "It's all yours", she said. Then Jasmine stepped aside to let Cris take over?

Mentions of Zander's pizza too xD
 

Cris heaved a sigh of relief when Jasmine suggested she be in charge of the rolling while he was responsible for helping the dough to breath and look all nice with the olive oil and garlic salt. Picking up the fork, he tested its tines before nodding enthusiastically, "I'm ready when you are," he told her as he waited patiently for her to work her magic with the dough.

Cris envied the way she handled the dough making it all nice and round and crusty looking. At least one of them knew what they were doing. When she stepped aside to let him have a go with his fork, he happily stepped forward and began to liberally pierce the dough with the fork's tines. A little over here, a little over there and then it was time to drizzle the olive oil.

He replaced the fork for the bottle of olive oil and tilted it a little over the dough allowing the oil to slowly drizzle over the it until he had covered the entire round surface. Now for the garlic salt. Picking up the salt shaker, Cris lighted salted the surface of the pizza dough before placing the shaker down.

"Did I miss any spots?" he turned to ask Jasmine inquiringly, glancing over in time to see Zander toss his dough up...only it didn't come down. Resisting the urge to laugh out loud, Cris leaned over to inform his young friend of his missing pizza dough's whereabouts.

"Um...Zander, it's up there?" Cris gestured up to the ceiling.

Zander looked around in utter confusion. Was Zahra the cause of this, that evil arm-biting, up-to-no-good doing---

And his thoughts were interrupted by none other than Cris, the older hufflepuff he met in the dueling arena. What? Zander followed Cris' fingers all the way up to the... Uh-oh. "Oh," that was the most he could say about the predicament. Uh. What does one do with a ceiling pizza? How could he get it down? It was way too far up to reach for. And they weren't supposed to use any magic in this class. Uuhhh.

What the heck!? Muggle studies is supposed to be easy!!! Ugh.

Zander kept his eye on the pizza dough as he tried to think of a way to get it down from up there. Uh... And just as he started brainstorming, he noticed that one side was starting to get all, unstuck. Oh no. Well there's a reason he never made it on the Quidditch team because his reflexes were definitely not quick enough to catch the pizza, which sure enough fell.

SPLAT. Right on top of his head. Well things just got really gooey and real doughy real quickly. Now what? :blink:

She had stayed quiet during the discussion, not because she hadn’t had answers. Lily had ideas as to why they had needed to add all the ingredients in question, yet they had been said. There wasn’t any reason to repeat things just so Professor Hadley knew she was paying attention. There were other ways of doing that, and she had been grateful that nobody had questioned her dough-making skills. As if she had any that she knew of, since this would be the first pizza she had made from scratch. She had felt sympathy for Alexa, though, yet stayed quiet. Staying quiet had also kept her from wanting to keep checking on her dough to make sure it had been rising. The focus was important, even if she didn’t think anything was likely to explode like might have happened in Potions. Focus was important in everything, especially baking. Otherwise, she could end up with a failed pizza, and she wasn’t about to depend on anyone else to offer to let her share theirs.

She was determined to make the best pizza she could. As such, she’d been grateful for the discussion turning back toward things like how to actually deal with the dough, along with the knowledge she had been right in her thoughts earlier. People didn’t always use rolling pins with the dough, and she had the chance to see if she could toss it. Going the easy way out didn’t seem fun to her, anyway. She’d started by kneading, anyway, using the heels of her hands to work the dough so it was more pliable before even contemplating what she’d do next. She wasn’t about to get her dough stuck to the ceiling, like had happened to a Gryffindor boy working not that far away from her. She’d just toss it up a little, adding a bit of a spin. It was supposed to stretch, so that meant she couldn’t toss it like a ball. After a few throws, though, she started feeling more unsure of her ability to catch it. It seemed pretty good, anyway. She placed it onto her pizza stone and used her hands to press it out just bit more, to make it more even and looking like pizza. Once that was done, she picked up a fork and pricked it several times, making sure to get the pricks close to evenly spaced through the circle of dough, before drizzling olive oil on the surface followed by a sprinkling of garlic salt. She’d lightly brushed the dough to spread the oil evenly as well, just to cover her bases. She didn’t want one spot to brown while another burned.

And mentions of Simon too
 

There's such thing as Allergic to sugar in case the Professor was wondering. "Umm. I can eat sugar but just a small amount, Professor." So there's no need to make another dough without sugar for her. And for why they need to put salt to the dough maybe its because to balance the sugar but someone already said that so no need to repeat it again. As for the flour she had no idea at all.



That's very long explanation.

Blink. Blink. Blink.

But they're finally moving on with the dough. Yay! Rolling the dough? She turned her attention to her partner. "Do you mind to roll the dough and I can do the next part?" Simon had more experiences in making pizza than her so its safer if he do it, yes? Hehehe. And for the next question she had absolutely no idea why they have to drizzle their dough with olive oil and garlic salt.

Lucy started to roll her dough..she prefered thinner crusts..
Then she said:" Professor I think the galtic salt does the flavour and the oil does the colour to pizza!

What a LONG explanation about dough. AJ wasn't even sure if she soaked any of that information up. All she kept doing was looking at her dough and counting down the minutes before they could actually eat their creations. Was that a question she heard? She raised her hand. "You add garlic if you wanna have bad breath, and oil is for decoration." You know, it gives it that shine.

Deciding on thick crust just because that meant she could do the rest of the work with her hands, the lion got down to business. She started to knead the dough until her arms hurt. Once she was satisfied with her creation she poked holes in her dough. Her stomach was already starting to growl. How much longer exactly?

"Precisely right," Fina nodded, as she carefully brushed oil onto her own crust...


"No, no, not at all. Olive oil does nothing for the elasticity of the dough. That's all credit to the chemical reaction between the ingredients." Fina explained. "Olive oil and garlic salt is all about the flavor."

"They both work together for flavour and colour." Mmhm. It wasn't solely the garlic salt for flavour; oil played a role in that too.

"If you knead it and work it out with your hands into a round pizza shape, then no, you don't have to roll it afterwards unless you feel like it doesn't resemble pizza crust in any way...." Hadley said thoughtfully. "There's nothing like hand-tossed or hand-kneaded crust though." It just seemed so ... real.

Now that was what Hadley was waiting for ... or expecting ... a help? From the Gryffindor Prefect, nonetheless. Frowning over at the sixth year and her lump of dough, she raised an eyebrow curiously. "Miss Cambridge. The dough is not a bludger to whack. No need to beat it. Smooth it out flat..." This wasn't quidditch.

"It does help with the cooking. It keeps the dough from getting soggy in the middle too." Hadley nodded in explanation.



Hmm? What was that? Someone lost their dough? Dough didn't just disappear unless they were referring to dough as money, and it was a spouse. But pizza dough didn't just disappear. But oh, it seemed the sixth year badger pointed it out to the gryffindor... and he'd done such a good job throwing the dough, pity it had to get stuck up there on the ceiling.

Fighting the urge not to laugh (because it WAS funny! even if she'd never attempt to toss dough into the air herself and thought he was brave for attempting it), she was about to offer to use her wand to get it down - despite it being muggle studies - when it seemed to break free from the ceiling on its own. And land on the third year's head. Okay, can she laugh NOW? No. Okay.

"I think a quick sanitation charm and the dough should be okay to still use...It looks like its got enough flour to not get hair stuck in it, at least." Fina suggested. He'd definitely want to wash his hair later though; washing with flour and dough was not really clean. So yes, she was giving him permission to use one quick magic spell in muggle studies? "Did you need help?"

"The oil is on the top of the crust though, so it really has no effect on preventing sticking to the pan. But yes to the crispiness and the flavor," Fina smiled at the Slytherin.


Oh okay. Small amounts of sugar were okay. So the amount used in the pizza dough was probably okay. Good, good.

"Both the garlic salt and the oil add flavor, but the olive oil also helps crisp the pizza crust up and give it color." You know in addition to the ingredients which already will add colour on its own.

Ah yup. That right there. Totally the reason. "Garlic isn't just for bad breath...." Fina winked at the first year. "It helps keep the vampires away too." She was joking of course. Maybe. But hey, gotta add SOME humour, right?!?

"So yes, working the edges out by hand will give you a thicker crust." She explained, as she did this to her own dough. Thick crust pizza was definitely better in her mind, at least. Of course her sister would disagree on that account. There was a happy medium though.

"So next is to spread a layer of sauce onto the pizza if you wish. No you don't HAVE to have sauce, but for traditional pizza, then add a thin layer of sauce over the crust, using the back of a spoon to spread it all over the crust, leaving about half an inch to an inch of room from the edges."

"Then add about half a cup to a cup of the shredded cheese..." Fina explained as she worked her own pizza. "If you'd like to add a topping, you can choose up to three from the topping table over here. Or just leave it plain cheese is fine too. Top the whole thing off with some oregano ... this spice here, stick a toothpick in the center with the names of who worked on your pizza in the center and we'll have these pizzas baked in about 10 to 15 minutes!" And then slice them up and they could sample a little of everyone's, yes? No? Maybe? Sharing was caring!

ooc: there's a wide array of both muggle and magic toppings on a separate table near the chalkboard; feel free to be creative in what toppings you think there might be. No, there's no chocolate, Alexa, sorry! ;D There's toothpicks with little pieces of oven-resistant papers attached to them to write your names...

UGH.

Sophie tuned out the whole description on what salt and sugar can do for pizza. Can they just eat now?! See, this is why they needed to use magic. They could just BIPPITY BOPPITY BOO a whole pizza right in front of them. But no. They had to do everything the slow Muggle style.

At least they'd be rolling out the dough soon. Sophie liked thicker crust, so she guessed she'd be doing this with her hands. Sophie began kneading out her dough, although she'd never had any experience with this kind of thing. She finally got it to where it looked like it may be set to be made into pizza. She collected a fork and poked it into her dough a few times. She followed that up by drizzling the dough with a bit of olive oil and garlic salt.

Now she was on to spreading a layer of sauce on to the pizza. She grabbed a spoon, flipped it over, and used it to spread the sauce. She then measured out a cup of shredded cheese and spread that over the pizza, as well. WHOOOOA, why so fast, Hadley? It was getting hard to keep up now. She sprinkled on the oregano then finished things off by sticking a toothpick right in the center.

"Sophie Annabella Newell was the only one to work on this pizza," it said.

Kneading, kneading, kneading.

Ethan took the initiative to do this particular job because, well, he wanted to show off. Even if the Slytherin’s not a kitchen person, he knew that it was the perfect opportunity to show his partner what he can do. And just in case she wants to make another pizza with him, she’d know who to call because he’s such a good helpersous chef. Hmmkay?

Ethan followed Professor Hadley’s lead and moulded their dough to look like a proper pizza pie, and added a thin layer of tomato sauce. Next was cheese. Sprinkle. Sprinkle. Sprinkle. The Slytherin smiled at this, as he got the feeling that their pizza will turn out awesome. Andandand! Extra toppings! “Err…I’m going to get some, yeah?” Ethan said as he turned to his partner who became awfully silent. Hopefully, he’s not disappointing her at the moment.

So yes. Toppings.

Mozarella Cheese…check! Ham…check! BAACCCOOOON! Lots of those please, and check! The third year dumped the meat bits first, then topped it with a layer of mozzarella cheese and added the oregano. Droooooooool. “Hey, Josette? If you still want to add more, just go and dump it on our pizza.” He said as he placed his hands on his hips, clearly happy with their creation. Oh and the paper flags! Ethan got one and wrote his name and Josette’s and sticked it right in the middle of the 90% done pizza. He had to fight the urge to put a “♥” in between their names though.

MERLIN.

Josette wasn't sure how it happened, but she was ending up watching him do a lot of the kneading, probably because she was a bit afraid that she might not have been really good at it, so mhmm, best to let him do it, since it looked like he had gotten the hang of it. While had been doing the kneading, she was marking down in her notes again as their progress had continued. But then she heard him speak & she lifted her head to see him walking away from their work station to grab some pizza toppings. "O-Oh, alright.."

Oh, lots of toppings there.

Not getting in his way again, she watched as he dumped a lot of different meats onto their pizza & couldn't help but count all of the different meats he'd added. It was certainly going to be quite the filling pizza she knew that. Josette looked at him as he asked her if she wanted to add anything else to their pizza & her eyes traveled to the pizza momentarily studying it. Had there been another mean they'd forgotten? OH, there was! She looked at him & suggested slowly, "I-Is pepperoni alright?" Would he mind that? Josette hoped he wouldn't as she was getting up & walking over to where Professor Hadley had the pizza toppings placed & grabbed a handful of the pepperoni.

Back at their workstation with the new meat, she took a moment to spread the pepperoni over their pizza, more so on one half, since she wasn't sure if Ethan even like pepperoni. But it definitely looked like he liked bacon, judging by the rather large amount of the meat. Next Ethan added the mozzarella & the oregano. It looked like everything was looking pretty good so far. She watched as Ethan took a second to write their names on one of those paper flags, but noticed a slight hesitation as he was writing their names though. Was he having difficulty writing her name? Should she tell him that there were two T's in her name, ya know it was a common mistake, a lot of people usually never knew that there were two T's in her name. But wait-oh, never mind he'd written it correctly.

It looked pretty delicious, she had to admit.

"...G-Good job.." She'd given a soft smile to her partner.

Simon continued jotting down notes quickly about the roles of sugar and salt when it came to pizza making. Interesting, he'd have to remember that for when he made pizza outside of class. When Candice asked him if he could do the rolling of the dough and if she could do the next part, he nodded. That seemed fair. To him, the best way to achieve a goal was to divide the work and conquer. "Of course, I'll get started on it now," he said as he picked up the dough out of the bowl and the rolling pin at the workstastion. He began rolling at the dough. Thinner crusts were always better.

He grinned. "Okay, now your turn, partner. What toppings do you want on here?" he asked. It was good to know what flavours she liked so that they could mix and match in order to make sure that every flavour worked.

Cris
 

Jasmine checked the pizza dough and everything looked fine. "No, I don't see any empty spots. The dough looks properly oiled and sprinkled. You did a great job."

When the Professor began to review the answer to the last question, Jasmine paused to listen. Then the Professor gave them the next set of instructions. They were almost finished, yay! She wrote everything down in her notebook and was ready to continue.

Turning back to Cris, Jasmine said, why don't I put the sauce on and you sprinkle the cheese and choose the toppings? Hoping that Cris was OK with her suggestion, Jasmine got the sauce and a large spoon. She scooped sauce onto the center of the dough and began to spread it around in a circular pattern. Making sure to leave the edges free of sauce, Jasmine checked to be sure that the sauce was evenly distributed. When she finished, she told Cris, "All done". "Take it away." She stepped back to allow Cris ample room to work.

Jasmine
 

So okay at least he got the flavor part right....and that was why he was handling the easy parts of this pizza making. He was more than happy to let Jasmine take the lead with the sauce as well. He just loved sprinkling things.

"Go ahead. You're the artist in this team," Cris grinned at Jasmine, as he reached up to scratch his forehead, unknowingly leaving a floury spot when he was done.

As Jasmine spread the tomato sauce on the pizza dough, Cris got ready with cheeze and the toppings. "Okay let's see what we have here. Pepperoni, Mushroom, Onions, Pineapple. I hope that's fine with you," Cris asked Jasmine as he began spreading first the cheese over the prepared dough and then began laying down the toppings. First the pepperoni, then the mushrooms, followed by the Pineapple.

"Does this look edible?" Cris glanced up after he was done to look at Jasmine

Penelope listened a little but mostly she just wanted to continue making the pizza so they could eat sooner. If only it didn't take so long for the dough to rise. Good Merlin...

And then...it was time? Already? Huh, that went a little faster than she expected...only a little though. Still felt like awhile.

Anyway.

She was gonna go for thick crust, so she quickly started kneading her dough out carefully with her hands. Definitely not gonna toss it up though considering how well that went for that Gryffindor boy over there. She'd worked hard on this pizza and wasn't gonna risk messing it up, even if there were sanitation charms and such. Better to keep it good like it was. 'Course, kneading it all out properly still took a few minutes but it was worth it once she'd finished and pricked it randomly with a fork a few times. The olive oil was carefully drizzled on next and then some garlic salt after it.

Yep, that looked pretty good so far.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 11623567) "So yes, working the edges out by hand will give you a thicker crust." She explained, as she did this to her own dough. Thick crust pizza was definitely better in her mind, at least. Of course her sister would disagree on that account. There was a happy medium though. "So next is to spread a layer of sauce onto the pizza if you wish. No you don't HAVE to have sauce, but for traditional pizza, then add a thin layer of sauce over the crust, using the back of a spoon to spread it all over the crust, leaving about half an inch to an inch of room from the edges." "Then add about half a cup to a cup of the shredded cheese..." Fina explained as she worked her own pizza. "If you'd like to add a topping, you can choose up to three from the topping table over here. Or just leave it plain cheese is fine too. Top the whole thing off with some oregano ... this spice here, stick a toothpick in the center with the names of who worked on your pizza in the center and we'll have these pizzas baked in about 10 to 15 minutes!" And then slice them up and they could sample a little of everyone's, yes? No? Maybe? Sharing was caring! ooc: there's a wide array of both muggle and magic toppings on a separate table near the chalkboard; feel free to be creative in what toppings you think there might be. No, there's no chocolate, Alexa, sorry! ;D There's toothpicks with little pieces of oven-resistant papers attached to them to write your names...

Time for the sauce? Awesome! This meant they were pretty close to being done and then it had to cook and then they could eat!

Penelope was very excited.

Sauce was important to having a good pizza in her opinion, so she carefully spread it out over the dough, making sure there was a pretty even amount all over. That was also important. Next came the cheese, a whole cup of it, which she sprinkled as evenly as possible over the sauce.

And now...toppings. A limit of three, but that was fine. Penelope considered just going for a simple pepperoni pizza but...nah, she wanted more than just that. All of it looked pretty good, but she felt like she was kinda in a meat sorta mood right now, so she eyed those...and decided to grab some sausage and bacon as well. Yum.

She laid the pepperoni randomly around the pizza then dropped the bacon and sausage in random spots too until she was satisfied. Yep. Awesome. This was gonna be an awesome pizza.

Oregano was added and then stuck a toothpick in the center of it with the words "Penelope Greenwell's awesome pizza" on it.

Ready to cook now!