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Louis Ghelfi’s Original Bar Pizza Recipe

South Shore Bar Pizza · barpizzabarpizza.com · 2022 · Original

Chicago Tavernas labeled by the source

DietVegan. 10 ingredients checked. Reviewed: dough, tomatoes, herbs; all plant.

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Chicago Tavern style, one of 22 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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Chicago Tavern (Chicago): cracker-thin, cut into squares (not wedges), rolled with rolling pin, what Chicagoans actually eat

Tradition: 45 to 55% hydration · 475 to 525°F bake

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

600g

Water

n/a

Hydration

n/a

Salt

n/a

Yeast

n/a

Oil

2.3%

Sauce

259g

Cheese

n/a

Dough weight

755g

Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

n/a

Bake time

20 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (6)

  • sauce tomatoCrushed Tomatoes7 1/2 oz · 213g
  • sauce tomatoTomatoe Paste3 tbsp · 45.9g
  • salt1 pinch Salt & Peppern/a
  • yeast.75 oz Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast142g
  • flourGold Medal All Purpose Flour3 cup · 600g
  • oilOlive Oil3 tsp · 13.5g

Toppings (4)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

  • over cheese2 clove Garlic
  • over cheeseOregano1 tbsp · 1.5g
  • over cheeseParsley1 tsp · 0.5g
  • over cheeseSweet Basil1 tsp · 0.5g

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