New Italian Pizza Recipes Notebook

Creating your best pizza recipe

I learnt with time – mainly thanks to my family recipe notebook – how important is to write down recipes. I remember my mum and my grandma at the time when I was very young. They had two completely different approaches when preparing food.

My grandma (from my father) was doing everything by heart. Most of the times she was preparing pizza without even using a scale. Same was for other traditional food recipes from my area. On the other side my mum was taking notes of the most important recipes. Ingredients first and process then. I guess you have seen before the classic agenda used to write down recipes. I believe that my mum learnt this approach from her mum….

I follow my mum when making pizza. I take notes.

This is the main reason why I use extensively a notebook to write recipes. It’s to keep the right approach.

I created the new Italian Pizza Recipes Notebook to make sure I am able to reproduce the pizza dough I like more. The structure of the notebook is straight forward. Let me share a bit more details, even before you decide to download.

     A two pages Italian pizza recipe

First and foremost, I considered necessary to have enough space to write some generic info as well as what are pizza ingredients to use:

Those are key details when making pizza at home. They actually were already in the previous version of my pizza recipe notebook but I slightly modified this part. Now you have the options to write up to three (or more if you prefer) dough balls size and weight. I made this thinking at pizza in sheet tray or pizza pan. I often prepare the dough for different shape and size of sheet trays.

Then we have the part that I modified the most. It’s the one about kneading method. It should be now super easy to take notes and follow the process when making the indirect method of kneading, maybe using biga or poolish.

Finally we move to the fermentation and baking. Specifically for pizza fermentation, you can check the field of the fermentation phases you decided to use in the pizza making process. And we conclude the first of the two pages with information about baking.