My favorite hometown pizza place is Jioio's. Here's an article about it:
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/01/greensburg-pa-finally-getting-sweet-on-jioios-pizza.html It's a very thin, flaky, sweet crust with a sweet sauce. Has anyone had any luck replicating it? I feel like I have gotten close with the recipe below, but it seems like it's missing something:
I determined you have to use lard to get it close. You also have to roll out the dough in a manner similar to how you would make puff pastry.
Dough:
15 oz AP flour
3 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp salt
5 oz chilled and cubed lard
1 and 1/8 cups ice water
combine flour, salt, sugar. cut the lard into the mixture until it forms pea size crumbles. Add water and form into a ball. place onto floured surface and using a rolling pin flatten into a rectangle. fold top down one third, and bottom up one third, then fold the two other sides in. then roll this out into a rectangle and repeat 3 times. wrap in plastic wrap after the third turn and place in fridge for an hour. preheat oven to 475 degrees. line a 12x18 baking sheet with parchment. roll dough into a large rectangle and place in baking sheet (stretch dough up the sides of the sheet if you didn't roll it large enough.) place a smaller baking sheet on top to weigh it down and bake for 8 minutes. remove from oven add sauce, mozz cheese, romano cheese, and provolone cheese, then pepperoni (or whatever you want). Bake for an additional 12-15 min.
sauce: 3 cloves garlic
28 oz crushed tomatoes
salt, pepper to taste
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp oregano
1 yellow onion
1 sprig basil
simmer garlic for 5 minutes in olive oil, add crushed tomatoes, onion, basil, and spices, simmer for an hour, remove onion and basil stems.
