Another mystery pizza was made at market yesterday by Steve and me. I had bought a Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit awhile ago, but didn’t try it out until yesterday. I did take the dough mix out of the bag and weighed it to see how much it weighed, because I wanted to see if I tried a NY style pizza out of the At-Home Baking kit, how much the total weight would be when the water was added. I also wanted to see since ADY was in this mix, if that would make a different dough or not. The Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit is for soft pretzels, Deep Dish pizza, pretzel dogs, and monkey bread. In the directions it said to dissolve contents of the yeast packet (10.5 grams) in 1 ½ cups lukewarm tap water. (105 degrees F) Let sit about 2 minutes. Water temperature must not exceed 115 degrees F. Steve and I measured the water temperature when adding the ADY to water, so it wouldn’t be too hot. We followed the other directions inside the box and when the dough was mixed it seemed way too dry (it had said in the directions that after kneading, the dough would be soft and slightly tacky and that wasn’t the case for us). We then added more water, until we thought the dough was moist enough or about 63 % hydration. The dough mixing directions said to place the bowl of dough in a warm spot (85-95 degrees F) for 30 minutes so the dough can rise. Of course market temperatures were that high yesterday, so there was no need to find a warm spot for the dough to rise. We waited about 1 ½ hrs. to use the dough. We divided the dough to use enough dough for a 16 “ pizza. The dough ball was easy to open. I did take a picture of the pizza baking in the oven, but it came out blurry. After first baking the pizza for not long, it wanted to brown on the bottom too fast, so 3 screens were added under the pie.
After eat tasting a slice of pizza, Steve, other stand holders and I decided the crust was way too sweet. I don’t know if it was the dextrose or molasses, or another ingredient in the mix, that made the dough way too sweet. The rest of the divided dough I bought home last evening and froze, to try another time for soft pretzels.
I wanted to try this Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit because I wanted to see if it would taste like real Auntie Anne’s soft pretzels. So far it didn’t. I don’t know how a home person making this dough would fair out, because even though Steve and I do know some about making dough, I don’t think the instructions work. I also planned on trying the Aunti Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit yesterday because it said in the ingredients it contained less than 2% of dextrose and also included sodium aluminum sulfate in the ingredients. Sodium aluminum sulfate wasn’t in the other GM mixes I tried before. I was trying less than 2 % of dextrose or sugar in my home pizza crust mix.
I had tried making my own pretzel dough in another thread, and from the experiment Steve and I did yesterday, I like my own results better. The Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit was also too expensive bought at the Country Store at 5.99 for the baking kit. I wonder how many people buy that baking kit and are disappointed in the results. Although the bottom crust looked almost burnt, it didn't have any burnt taste when eating it.
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Norma
