Homemade Grandma-Style Pizza
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2025 · Original
Grandmainferred from the title
DietNot vegetarian: bulk hot or sweet italian sausage. Reviewed: Italian sausage; mozzarella; butter.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Grandma style, 88% hydration: wetter than 92% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 450°F, hotter than 58% of recipes that state an oven.
Grandma (Long Island): half-sheet pan-pressed, olive-oil-fried bottom, Italian-American home tradition
Tradition: 60 to 70% hydration (this recipe: 88%) · 500 to 550°F bake (this recipe: 450°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
550g
Water
485g
Hydration
88.2%
Salt
2.7%
Yeast
0.36%
Oil
4.9%
Sauce
184g
Cheese
340g
Dough weight
1079g
Process
Bake temp
450°F / 232°C
Bake time
23 to 25 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (7)
- flourbread flour or all-purpose flour550g
- saltsalt15g
- yeastinstant yeast2g
- watercold water485g
- oilextra-virgin olive oil2 tbsp · 27.2g
- cheese mozzarellashredded low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella cheese12 oz · 340g
- sauce tomato¾ cup tomato sauce3/4 cup · 184g
Toppings (6)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheeseunsalted butter2 tbsp · 36g
- over cheesebroccoli rabe8 oz · 227g
- over cheese1 clove of garlic
- over cheesesqueeze of lemon
- over cheese1 to 2 tablespoons Calabrian chili paste1 tbsp · 12.5g
- over cheesebulk hot or sweet Italian sausage8 oz · 227g
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