Homemade Pizza Oven River Cottage

Trickle with a little olive oil and bake for 10 12 minutes until the base is crisp and the top bubbling and golden.

Homemade pizza oven river cottage. Don t be tempted to add too much. Repeat with the remaining dough and. To make the dough combine the flours and salt in a large bowl.

Finally top with a layer of smooth solid bricks 1b to form the oven floor. There was no turning back from that point. These will act as a heat sink warming up then radiating heat back up through the oven.

And knead for about 10 minutes until silky and elastic. Dust a rimless baking sheet with coarse flour lay the. Preheat the oven to 250 270 c or as hot as your oven will go leave baking trays in the oven.

Make a well in the middle of mixed yeast salt and flour and gradually add water until it makes a semi soft dough. She also got me a copy of kiko denzer build your own earth oven which i read cover to cover on the train many times and can t recommend highly enough. Add the yeast warm water.

Add salt and yeast to opposite ends of the flour as to not kill the yeast and mix dry ingredients. Preheat the oven and pizza stone or substitute as high as it will go. Put a layer of rubble and stones in the centre 1a then add a layer of sand and glass bottles.

Slide the pizza on to the hot baking sheet in the oven for a really crispy crust or you can simply lay the baking sheet on the hot one in the oven to avoid the tricky pizza transfer.