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- From: nikita@sink.unipalm.co.uk (Nikita Boni)
- Subject: Cherry & Almond Pizza
- Message-ID: <1993Jul14.111236.7359@unipalm.co.uk>
- Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 11:12:36 GMT
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- CHERRY & ALMOND PIZZA
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- Dough
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- 345g (11oz - 2 3/4 cups) strong white flour
- 1 heaped teaspoon salt
- 15g (1/2oz - 3 teaspoons) fresh (compressed)
- yeast; or 1 teaspoon dried active yeast
- and 1 teaspoon sugar; or 1 teaspoon easy
- blend yeast
- 158ml (6 fl oz - 3/4 cup) hand-hot water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 30g (1oz - 2 tablspoons) ground almonds.
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- Put flour and salt in a large bowl.
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- In a small bowl, mix fresh yeast with a little water; put in a
- warm place until frothy. To use dried active yeast, wisk with
- sugar and a little water; leave until frothy.
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- Add yeast liquid to flour with remaining water and oil. (To use
- easy blend yeast, mix into flour and salt before adding water
- and oil.) Mix to soft dough.
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- Knead on floured surface for 10 minutes. Put in a greased bowl,
- cover; put in warm place for 45 minutes or until doubled in size.
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- Knock back risen dough and knead dough with ground almonds.
- Oil a 30cm (12in) pizza tin.
- Put dough in centre and press out to edges with knuckles. Pinch
- up edges to create a rim.
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- Topping
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- 2 egg whites
- 125g (4oz - 3/4 cup) ground almonds
- 90g (3oz - 1/2 cup) caster sugar
- few drops almond essence
- 750g (1 1/2 lb) jar Morello cherries in juice
- 60g (2oz - 1/2 cup) flaked almonds
- 3 tablespoons Morel0o cherry jam
- icing sugar for dusting
- whipped cream, to decorate
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- Preheat oven to 220C (425F. Gas 7)
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- In a bowl, lightly wisk egg whites. Stir in ground almonds,
- caster sugar and almond essence. Spread the mixture evenly over
- pizza base.
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- Drain cherries, reserving juice. Spoon over pizza, reserving a
- few for decoration. Sprinkle with flaked almonds and bake in the
- oven for 20 minutes until dough is crisp and golden.
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- Meanwhile, in a saucepan, heat reserved juice and jam until syrupy.
- Dust cooked pizza with icing sugar and decorate with whipped cream
- and reserved cherries.
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- Serve the sauce separately.
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- Serves 4-6
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- Enjoy
- Nikita
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