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New Haven Style White Clam Pizza

I Am A Honey Bee · iamahoneybee.com · 2020 · Original

New Haveninferred from the title

DietNot vegetarian: chopped clams, whole baby clams, chopped cooked bacon. Reviewed: clams; bacon; pecorino romano.

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New Haven style, one of 29 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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New Haven (New Haven, CT): coal-fired, well-done / leoparded, white clam as signature; tomato-oregano-grated-hard-cheese canon

Tradition: 60 to 68% hydration · 700 to 900°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

125g

Water

158g

Hydration

n/a

Salt

3.6%

Yeast

5.68%

Oil

0%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

28g

Dough weight

299g

Hydration above 95% is almost certainly a cups-to-grams parse error, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

n/a

Bake time

12 to 14 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (8)

  • flour1-3/4 to 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 cup · 125g
  • yeast1 packet Fleischmann’s® RapidRise® Yeast7.1g
  • sugar1-1/2 teaspoons sugar1 tsp · 4.2g
  • saltsalt3/4 tsp · 4.5g
  • watervery warm water *2/3 cup · 158g
  • cheese otherfreshly grated real Italian Pecorino Romano cheese1/4 cup · 28.3g
  • sauce tomatocrushed red pepper flakes1/2 tsp
  • oilextra virgin olive oiln/a

Toppings (7)

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

  • over cheesecornmeal
  • over cheese1 can chopped clams184g
  • over cheese1/2 can whole baby clams284g
  • over cheesechopped cooked bacon1/4 cup · 37.5g
  • over cheese2 cloves garlic
  • over cheesedried oregano1/2 tsp · 0.3g
  • over cheesechopped fresh parsley

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