Laughing as she put up her hair he was so glad that he didn't have to deal with such long hair, well his hair was longish for a boy/man but at least it wasn't passed his shoulders. Seeing her add the salt in he grabbed his clean spoon as it was his turn to mix. "awesome"

He placed the wooden spoon in the bowl and started to mix everything to gather and man it was getting harder and harder every time he put the wooden spoon through the mixture. Everything was starting to blend and mix together now.. Noticing that the next step says to add 1/2 cup of flour he stopped mixing.. "so it looks like now we need that 1/2 cup of flour… and when I'm done mixing that all the way through you can add more of it while I'm mixing it?"

he just loved working with Lux.. its like she could read his mind.

Taking a look at his over sugared mixture (oops), Zander happily moved on to step number two! This time he made sure to measure out the salt to the exact right amount and he didn't measure it over his bowl. Because you have to learn from mistakes. And that's how he rolled.

Then he did the flour stuff, starting with a small amount and working his way up to the 3 1/2 cups that he ended up using. It looked the right consistency? It was supposed to be sticky right? That's a thing. Wait. Just kidding. Hadley had said NOT sticky okay, so maybe another 1/2 cup? That should do the trick. Zander stirred so much that his arms were starting to get really tired. Yeah he definitely needed to go to that workout workshop for sure. Such a weakling.

As Bay mixed the ingredients together, Lux went about measuring the flour that they would need to add in. Things would be getting harder to stir when she added it, so his muscles would really need to work at it. He was a better stirrer than her, so there was no need to worry.

Adding the flour to the bowl, she started measuring out more so that it could be added in as well while Bay kept stirring. This was so much fun. They were the best team ever!

O.o!!!!!! They were baking pizza?! *INNER SCREAM OF HAPPINESSS*

Pizza eating was his strong suit, yes, but...baking it...or baking AT ALL...not so much. Ugh, now he was having flashbacks to the Home Ec. Muggle Studies classes he had back at Winchester. *shudder* At least he had help then. Looks like he'll be tackling this sooollloooo.

He jotted down the recipe on a piece of parchment, placing a waterproofing spell on it after just in case he spilled something.

These are the types of days he wished he had Italian up in his Scottish and British roots. Following the recipe, he combined water, sugar, and the yeast together in a big bowl. He let it sit for 10 minutes, passing time by drawing tiny pizzas on another piece of parchment.

Once he started the notice the bubbles forming in the yeast, he moved on to step two, which was adding salt and stirring. Simple, right?
Too simple...
Declan added it anyways and stirred. Hey, at least there's no animal hearts in this like that potion professor was feeding them. Good, good.

SPOILER!!: la ricetta

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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.

Next, add the salt and stir. But stir for HOW LONG? Until it was mixed? He had to remind himself that this wasn't potions, and it wasn't exact stirring and temperature in baking like in potions. Yes Caleb, just remind yourself of that. So he took the half teaspoon of salt and added it to the mixture, which was now bubbling just as Hadley had said, and began to stir. And stir and stir and stir.

Once he was pretty sure it was all stirred together, he had to add the flour. But only half a cup of flour, according to the instructions. So he did that, stirring some more before adding another half a cup once that first batch was mixed in with the dough thoroughly. Ugh. His arm was starting to hurt...

Watching her add the flour he started to mix.. and it was getting so tough now and he started break a sweat. "this is so tough… how to muggles do this?" he wouldn't like to do everything by hand… even though he picks his own food from their family garden. As soon as it was mixed through it was time to start to add the flour little bit at a time..

"when ever your ready Lux" he said as he was still mixing.

Yep, she was right about it getting harder and harder to stir. Bay was actually breaking into a sweat. But he was a big boy, and Lux knew that he could handle it like a man. "I think muggles must be really strong like Mr. Kirby." That man was HUGE like a brick wall or something.

Slowly, she added another 1/2 Cup of flour to the mixture while Bay stirred. "This makes 1 Cup of flour, so we still have at least 2 Cups to go." Best case scenario they wouldn't need the 4 1/2 Cups of it. Time to get more flour ready.

His question was answered right away. So even if his pizza was horrible he would still get some. Nigel could live with that. But there was the small problem of knowing the difference between a table and tea spoon. He never cooks so how would he know. Meh he would just with it and see what happens.

Sounds like fun.

Though this sounded more like a potions class than anything else with all the instructions. Maybe there is a correlation. But that would be too much effort to find out. Nigel put his hair back and out of the way. As long as this was not like Transfig it would be cool. Equal rights and whatnot.

So Nigel was ready to start or so he think. Partners are meh.

The yeast was beginning to bubble!! "Um....Jasmine is this supposed to happen?" Cris glanced away from the bowl and over to his girlfriend.

Cris quickly reviewed the recipe written on the chalkboard and breathed a sigh of relief. Ten minutes were up and so did the yeast. Well if up meant that it was bubbly.

Check. Step one completed. Now for the next step. Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and then stir. Then the flour. Easy peasy.

Cris picked up a teaspoon and measured out half a teaspoon of salt and added that into the bowl. Then he picked up the wooden spoon, placed the bowl in the crook of his arm and began stirring the salt into the mixture.

As he stirred, he turned to Jasmine, "Is it time for you to add the flour now? I can keep stirring while you do that," Cris offered as he tilted the bowl to give Jasmine easier access to the bowl he was holding in his arm.

Stir....stir....stir....

SNORT. Trust Alexa Cambridge to not want to kill someone because the method was not creative enough. He was amused. Really. "Good to know that you're not going to try and poison me, then." Thank YOU, Cambridge. "If you find a more creative method, let me know so I can prepare in advance, mkay?" Joking, he was.

Winks were appreciated too. Uh huh. "Thanks!" Wink in return for you, unknown person.

Oh? OH. There was a DEAL going on.

Grayson smirked to himself as he followed the grey-aproned girl's lead and added half a teaspoon of salt and stirred it. It was interesting to see what these two were like, especially new girl over here. He cleaned the cup and was about to scoop up some flour when something interesting reached his ears and he paused. We. Him and new girl. Biggest slices. Still smirking, he looked over at Lex. Two of them were ambitious? Which two?

No no, scratch that. Which OTHER person was ambitious? Because she obviously included him in that group. Uh huh. "Dunno how you just managed to wangle the deal to suit you but that's impressive." Honest truth right there. "You sure you're not secretly in Slytherin?" And him and the pretty one were still getting the bigger slices. Yes. Nevermind that she had sprayed his apron with flour. And that something inside of him was all up for a flour fight.

Oh please. Somebody start that already!

Grayson scooped up half a cup of flour and added it to his dough before setting it down and mixing the flour with the dough. He didn't care that it stuck to his fingers but that didn't stop him from making a face as he used MORE flour to make the dough less sticky. And to get the sticky dough OFF of his hands. When he found it becoming less and less sticky, the fourth year looked over at Lex and said, "Maybe you can start with the bowls and cooking spray?" And looks over towards new girl for clarification.

Hello.

Text Cut: Instructions

- 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.

Alright time for pizza making! Kace was excited about this. He heard the professor and aaaahh he got the butter and olive oil mixed up. Woopsies. He knew it was something along those lines. But anyways onto the task at hand. He got all his ingredients. He decided he wanted to make the pizza for himself. He wrote down the ingredients in his notebook.



Alright so he got his one bowl. He needed to add the water, sugar and yeast. That seemed logical enough. He needed 1 1/2 cup of water. He got his liquid measuring cup and measured the water from the faucet. He poured in into the mixing bowl. He got his measuring spoons and found the tablespoons. He got that and measured the sugar. He added it in gracefully. Then he used the tablespoon for the yeast and added it in. He needed to it stand for at least 10 mins. He would add salt in later.

Now onto the next step...

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Poison? Snort. "Believe me when I say they are more creative ways of killing you." Poison was sometimes slow and in the cases it wasn't, it was a little too quick for any real satisfaction. So he was right. He could very much trust her to not poison him while they worked on the pizzas together.

And he had the right idea. They would get it done faster working together...except not really now that they had two pizzas and two of them working on it. The odds were just like before but she wouldn't point that out because she was HELPING in the little ways she could. The Professor should let them make drinks during a lesson. She could, it was easy enough. Maybe some time closer to the summer when she'd be burning up.

OoooOoOo for a Slytherin Grayson was generous, or maybe it was because it was her and Lottie? In any case he was agreeing that the pizza sharing would happen and she was all for that, even when Lottie added the conditions to her getting a share. The Gryffindor beamed anyway because it was fine as long as they fed her. "That's cool, see, at least two of us standing here is ambitious so I'm guessing the pizzas will be big, then you factor in that at least one of us won't have a large appetite, so even if you have the biggest slices there'll still be more than enough for me." And she wouldn't have to go lifting too many fingers. Neat, huh?

But yes, follow Lottie's lead Grayson, she knew what she was doing--not that she doubted he didn't too but you always had more faith in the bestfriend, it was just a thing.

"Lemme know when we get to easy stuff." Granted what they were doing now was easy but shh, for now she was supervising. Busy work, it was.

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

SNORT. Trust Alexa Cambridge to not want to kill someone because the method was not creative enough. He was amused. Really. "Good to know that you're not going to try and poison me, then." Thank YOU, Cambridge. "If you find a more creative method, let me know so I can prepare in advance, mkay?" Joking, he was.

Winks were appreciated too. Uh huh. "Thanks!" Wink in return for you, unknown person.

Oh? OH. There was a DEAL going on.

Grayson smirked to himself as he followed the grey-aproned girl's lead and added half a teaspoon of salt and stirred it. It was interesting to see what these two were like, especially new girl over here. He cleaned the cup and was about to scoop up some flour when something interesting reached his ears and he paused. We. Him and new girl. Biggest slices. Still smirking, he looked over at Lex. Two of them were ambitious? Which two?

No no, scratch that. Which OTHER person was ambitious? Because she obviously included him in that group. Uh huh. "Dunno how you just managed to wangle the deal to suit you but that's impressive." Honest truth right there. "You sure you're not secretly in Slytherin?" And him and the pretty one were still getting the bigger slices. Yes. Nevermind that she had sprayed his apron with flour. And that something inside of him was all up for a flour fight.

Oh please. Somebody start that already!

Grayson scooped up half a cup of flour and added it to his dough before setting it down and mixing the flour with the dough. He didn't care that it stuck to his fingers but that didn't stop him from making a face as he used MORE flour to make the dough less sticky. And to get the sticky dough OFF of his hands. When he found it becoming less and less sticky, the fourth year looked over at Lex and said, "Maybe you can start with the bowls and cooking spray?" And looks over towards new girl for clarification.

Hello.

Text Cut: Instructions

- 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.

As if Lex would give him full disclosure of killing methods. Seriously. New boy.

Yes, about that deal... Lotus was basically making her own pizza, it was probably the Slytherin boy who would be sharing with Lex, or did she forget to let them know? Oops. They should've read the fine print. She wouldn't mind sharing one slice with her best friend. And her boyfriend... who was... apparently done with the first steps. Right. She wasn't surprised at that.

Smirk. See, this is why Lex and Lottie were best friends. "You don't get to decide on toppings either, unless you add them, Lex." THIS could be a potential problem since Lottie would only add one. Luckily for Lex, she'd still eat it since it would be pepperoni. IF they were allowed the toppings they wanted, that is. Because they'd have toppings, right?

Suddenly, that was the most important thing in Lottie's mind.

Hello, Slytherin boy. That's a great idea, actually. "Speaking of easy stuff... go on and do as he says, best friend." A smile was in place for Lex. She could do that, right? While Lottie and... what was his name, by the way? ...worked on the dough.

He wanted to be clued in on how she'd out him? "What have I told you about how knowing things detracts from how epic they'll be?" It was the same principle as the perks he wanted to know about. Knowing made them less cool, or had he already forgotten? "Most I'd tell you is the time, but not the day, just so you can freak at that hour every day til it finally happens." If it ever does. Sometimes mind tricks were enough, she'd learned that.

Lex watched the two with their preparation of the dough? Was that it, yeah. It was a part of the pizza, the name wasn't that important to her anyway, just the watching and not getting in the way.

She smirked at what she'd be taking as a compliment from Whitlock. "I have my ways." Of making things work for her that is. "And my father was a Slytherin, taught me everything he knows." A double benefit for her right there. Her father was cool--not as cool as if he'd have been a Gryffindor but you know--and he taught her how to get what she wanted, even if it did backfire on him sometimes. Not her fault.

Lex looked to Lottie at the mention of adding toppings. "I can do that. What kind do we have?" She glanced around the kitchen. "I don't reckon there's chocolate." Not to put ON the pizza, but to munch on while she added said toppings. It could be tiring work you know and she was missing the taste of sugar in her mouth right about now.

Oh, the easy part was here? She gave them a salute before grabbing the first bowl and heavily coating it with the spray. No one said how much. Don't question it. The second wasn't coated with as much but she was seriously thinking about it while she glanced back at the intstructions. "Done."

Alllllllllllllllllright, he was on step three now.

The seventeen year-old readied himself in front of the bowl and scooped up 1/2 cup of flour to pour gradually into the bowl. Coolcoolcool. It took about three 1/2 cups for the dough to stop being such a baby and let go of the bowl. Declan poked in his pinky just to be sure it didn't fool him and grab on. Good. Everything is going according to plan. This is good, yes.

Okay, so now he had to spray the other bowl. He reached over for the cooking spray, accidentally knocking over a cup of flour. NOT IN HIS BOWL, THANK GOODNESS, but now there was a mess everywhere. He'll get to that in a bit. He sprayed the other bowl thoroughly and then focused on his doughbaby in the previous bowl.

LIIIIIIIIFT. DROP.

Cool. Dec threw a cover over his doughbaby and made a mental timer of 45 minutes. This would be a good time to clean that flour mess, gosh.

Text Cut: Recipe

Quote:

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.

Arista took her red hair and put it into a pony tail, check no hair would be getting into her dough. Now time for the apron, she went and grabbed one and tied it around her. So now it was time to cook. Seeing the recipe on the chalkboard she wrote it down in her notebook.

SPOILER!!: Pizza Recipe

Muggle Studies Lesson One: Pizza Recipe


*Put your hair up and get an apron before you start cooking!!*

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.

She grabbed one of the bowls, the sugar, and yeast. For the water she used the measuring cup and pointed her wand down into there, "Aguamenti!" She stopped when there was 1 and 1/2 cups of water. Perfect. She poured in the tablesspoon of sugar and yeast and then the water. She mixed it all up and smiled. Now she had to wait... She hated waiting.

Was it bubbly yet? She looked down into the bowl, nope. But only a minute had passed anyways.

*Ten Minutes Later*

Yay, it was bubbly!! She added the 1/2 teaspoon of salt and gave the mixture a stir.

Well, she wouldn't need to tie her back because that was already done. AJ almost always had her hair back in a ponytail, it was less maintenance that way. She quickly walked over and washed her hands well.

Hmm... she wasn't a huge fan of cooking, but she did enjoy eating so she was ready to get it done so she could have some tasty pizza in her belly. Looking at the directions on the board, AJ got done and dirty. The first year measured out the water, sugar and yeast. Grabbing her bowl, she added the water humming to herself. Then came the sugar and yeast. Once she had everything added her eyes scanned the board once more and she realized that she three tablespoons of sugar instead of one. O_O Whoooops. That wouldn't matter much right?

Now she had to wait. This was AJ's least favorite part.

Adding flour and then stirring was getting monotonous and boringgggg. Plus Caleb's arm was starting to hurt! How did muggles DO this? It was so much easier to just charm the spoon to stir for him. Easy peasy. Too bad that wasn't allowed...

Once he was certain the dough was the correct consistency - he remembered his gran giving him some pizza dough to play with when he was younger, and it was something similar to that in front of him now - he checked the next step. Spray the bowl with cooking spray and put the dough in it. Easy enough. He grabbed the cooking spray and coated the inside of the bowl, and then, out of pure curiosity, ran his finger along the edge, wondering what it tasted like.

EWW EWW NO NOT GOOD TASTING BLEGH.

So the sugar was for the dough. Ok, that was surprising. It didn't seem like enough to make the dough too sweet or anything. Layla quickly tied her hair back and put on an apron, careful to tie the back well enough to keep it tied and washed her hands. Once that was done, she grabbed a bowl, added the water and began measuring out the sugar. Of course, she went the easiest way about this, sticking the tablespoon directly in the package of sugar and lifting, brushing off the extra and dumping it in the bowl. She repeated this process with the yeast, then set the mixture aside.

Once the yeast was bubbly, she measured out the 1/2 a teaspoon of salt before adding it to the mixture and grabbing a wooden mixing spoon and stirring. And then came the flour. Layla decided that the best way to go about this was the same way that she'd gone about the sugar and yeast. Dipping the 1/2 cup measuring cup into the bag and brushing off the extra. Doing this, she added her first 1/2 cup and started mixing it in using her hands. It was really sticky. Seriously sticky. Like, sticking to her hands. She hurriedly added another 1/2 cup of flour, using her hands again to mix. A little better, but still sticky. In went another 1/2 cup. Mix, a little better. Another 1/2 cup. Little better. She added three and a half cups of the flour before it started pulling away from the bowl and stopped sticking to her hands. She dusted her hands with some flour, just in case, before gathering the dough up and rolling it into one big ball of dough.

Next step. Layla put the dough ball back down into the bowl she'd mixed it in for a moment before grabbing a second bowl and spraying it down with the cooking spray. She picked her dough ball back up and placed it in the newly sprayed bowl and covered it with plastic wrap before setting it aside to rise.

"Flour coming up", Jasmine said. Picking up the dry measuring cup, Jasmine measured 4 cups of flour, one cup at a time and poured them into a second bowl. Then she added the final 1/2 cup to the bowl. Having measured out all of the flour, Jasmine was now ready to add flour to the mixture.

Taking the 1/2 cup measuring cup, Jasmine filled it with flour. She began to slowly pour the flour into the mixture that Cris was stirring. "OK Cris, keep stirring. When it looks pretty well blended, I'll add the next 1/2 cup of flour."

As Cris continued to stir, Jasmine continued to add flour 1/2 cup at a time. Glancing at her notes, she told Cris, "It says to keep adding flour until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and no longer sticks to your fingers." "Keep stirring for now and we'll keep an eye on the dough." Things were looking good so far and Jasmine hoped that they would be able to pull this off.

What was that look for? Of course she was gonna make it. She'd cooked loads of times before anyway and even got an O on her OWL for this class for it. The only O she'd gotten. Mhm.

So anyway Penelope quickly scribbled down the recipe and ingredient amounts since it'd be easier to just look down at her notes than to keep looking over at the board and then tied her hair back in a messy sort of bun, slipped on an apron, and washed her hands. She was pretty sure her hands were clean, but washing your hands, even if you thought they were fine, was generally a good idea. Just in case.

Now to start making the dough.... Hadley'd given the okay to using the Aguamenti spell, but this WAS Muggle Studies, so Penelope didn't feel like falling back on magic right now, even if it was just one spell. So she took a measuring cup over to a sink and measured out 1 1/2 cups of warm water, then poured that into a bowl. Measuring out a tablespoon of sugar came next, that was added to the bowl, and then measuring out a tablespoon of yeast, and that was added too. And then once those were all combined, it was time to wait...

Waiting was always the boring part of cooking. Well...it wasn't usually boring if she had, y'know, Ascanius with her, but Hadley probably wouldn't be happy if she let him distract her right now. So she stood there and looked around, glancing briefly at everyone before looking back at her bowl and then repeating the process until...

She wasn't entirely sure if ten minutes had passed or if the yeast had decided to bubble before a whole ten minutes was up, but either way it meant it was time for the next step. So the 1/2 teaspoon of salt went in and she began stirring.

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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.

Dangit, she had forgotten to add the salt and to stir it. It had been well over ten minutes, how many exactly, she couldn't be sure. AJ was messing this up big time. Her mum would be shaking her head at her right about now. Maybe the whole ten minute thing was lax. Was there somebody who went around testing recipes every minute to see at what minute was the best? She seriously doubted that. Everything was going to be just fine.

Next she added 1/2 cup of flour and mixed it until her little arms felt like they were going to fall off. What was the point of being a witch again? She had been doing things the old fashioned way all her life, and now she wanted to use her handy, dandy magic stick. Looking at her creation she decided that more flour was definitely needed. Carefully she sifted more flour and then all of a sudden a big blob of flour fell into the bowl. That was definitely more than what was called for. The first year just kept mixing it together. There was nothing to see here.

He should have realised that he'd get an answer like THAT. Seriously, man, think about who you're talking to. "Okay, fine. But that means that it has to be epic otherwise I'm going to be disappointed." A bit of a morbid topic, this one was, but his current level of care was at the same level as his level of niceness. "Spoooooooky!" he said, waving his flour-covered fingers at her, "I'm sure I'll wet my pants out of fright up until that momentous occasion." That MIGHT have been sarcastic. Maybe.

They can decide.

Something they couldn't decide was who was going to end up sharing their pizza with Lex. Grayson was in his happy, blissfully unaware state where he'd share a small portion of his pizza with Lex and the pretty one could share a bit more of hers. Uh huh. Completely unaware.

Her father being a Slytherin doubled up with her being in Gryffindor made a lot of sense. No really, it did. "Bet he'd be proud about that. It must be a dangerous combination, being brave and cunning." And then he turned to new girl over here because he hardly knew her. Didn't even know her NAME. Jeez. "What about you? Do I need to watch out for your cunningness too?"

The topic of toppings came next and Grayson was only half paying attention. Only half. But he did manage to pick up on what Lex said about chocolate. "Are you seriously thinking about putting chocolate on pizza?!" Weren't they going to put tomato on there instead? Bit of a weird combina--

Oh sweet Merlin. This was how she was going to kill him. Not poison or any of that nonsense. Bad food combinations. And to think he hadn't even gotten that leather jacket yet. SIGH.

And the surprises kept on coming, didn't they? Grayson, who was patting the dough down to make sure it wasn't sticky, looked up and over at the two girls. "What in the name of Merlin? You two are best friends?!" Oh jeez. Oh man oh man, this explained EVERYTHING. And why had they not bothered to mention this before? HELLO. This was kinda important. Don't leave him all wishy washy like the clothes in a washing machine.

Giving the dough one last pat, the fourth year placed it in the bowl with less cooking spray -- not that he knew that -- and covered it. 45 minutes starting now!

Text Cut: Instructions

- 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.

Grabbing the other bowl from the table, Zander made sure to spray it everywhere. What does cooking spray even do? Does it cook the dough? But isn't the oven for that? Either way, if Hadley said so...... Zander grabbed his, now, giant chunk of dough and plopped it into the bowl.

Then he covered it all up. And now he waits. HADLEYYYYYY what is there to do noooooooow. Zander was soooo bored. They can't just sit and wait for 45 minutes. He could hardly even sit here for the two minutes that have already gone by. Blegh. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

Checking the mixture, Beverly made sure it was bubbly before she added salt. Her pizza HAD to be perfect, and it WAS going to be. She wasn't a newbie at this, so she expected the best from herself.

Having done the first step, she continued on with the second one, which was adding salt. Doing that she stirred carefully, totally feeling like a master chef AND a potions mistress.

Right up next was the flour. Beverly bit her lip to keep from grinning to herself. Flour brought memories, actually, this whole dough-making process did. Heh. She shook her head. Whoa! No. Get your head in the game, Wayne. She took some flour, about half a cup and added it to the bowl. Then, bit by bit added more until the dough looked like dough and pulled away from the bowl. It was still sticking a bit onto her fingers, so she added just a tiiiiny bit more. Finally, after some time, the dough didn't stick neither to the bowl or her fingers and she stopped with the flour. There. What pretty dough, Beverly style.

"Heeeeeeey, partner," Schuyler greeted, practically appearing out of thin air. Quiet footfalls, that's what it was.

And yes, they were partners now. Decided.

Her hair was already pulled back in a ponytail and their work station was all prepared with ingredients, so they were good to get this pizza-making started. She pulled one of the mixing bowls closer to them, then reached for the yeast and sugar. "Want to grab the water?"