Pizza dough using self-rising flour?

[Linda0818]

I want to make a homemade pizza tonight, but I don't have enough AP flour. I have plenty of self-rising flour, however. And I've been looking over recipes, unsure of how pizza crust made with SR flour will actually taste. Do any of you do this by any chance? Is the crust good?

Several of the recipes that I've looked over call for SR flour and Greek yogurt. But I don't have any yogurt.

I personally love pizza crust that's made with yeast. But I'm seeing it's not recommended to add yeast to SR flour. No doubt it would be overkill, anyway.

Anyone have any tried and true yummy pizza crust recipes using self-rise? And how is it different than yeast-made pizza crust?

 

[Badjak]

I'll be interested to see if anyone tried...
I'm just thinking out loud
- Go for it, it will be edible anyway
- add liquid to your flour, which will activate the baking powder. Leave to stand till baking powder activity has ended and add yeast
- just add yeast and treat your self rising flour as ap flour (I think I would go that route, but not hindered by any experience)

 

[Aunt Bea]

I would use it, the texture may be a bit different but like @Badjak says, it will be edible.

The old Angel Biscuit recipes used yeast, baking powder, and baking soda.

 

[Linda0818]

I'll be interested to see if anyone tried...
I'm just thinking out loud
- Go for it, it will be edible anyway
- add liquid to your flour, which will activate the baking powder. Leave to stand till baking powder activity has ended and add yeast
- just add yeast and treat your self rising flour as ap flour (I think I would go that route, but not hindered by any experience)

On one the of the recipes I found, someone commented that, although the crust was good, it was more like eating a flat biscuit than pizza dough. I'm not sure I'd like that very much. I want my pizza to taste like pizza (I have a couple of pretty good pizza dough recipes that I enjoy) not like a "flat biscuit" with pizza toppings.

The recipe calls for the SR flour, water and oil.

I read that you shouldn't add yeast to SR flour. So now I'm not even sure I'm going to do this. I may just wait until I get more AP flour and make something else instead of pizza.

I would use it, the texture may be a bit different but like @Badjak says, it will be edible.

The old Angel Biscuit recipes used yeast, baking powder, and baking soda.

Well, I have a very small amount of AP flour. I could always just make a tiny pizza.

But yeah, it's not enough to make my standard size. That and I'd have to figure out different measurements of all the other ingredients and...

I think I'll just cook a frozen pizza and leave it at that

 

[medtran49]

The old Angel Biscuit recipes used yeast, baking powder, and baking soda.

I was going to mention that as well. I think angel biscuits taste great personally, just rarely make them anymore.

 

[Linda0818]

I was going to mention that as well. I think angel biscuits taste great personally, just rarely make them anymore.

I'll have to check out this Angel Biscuit recipe.

 

[medtran49]

I'll have to check out this Angel Biscuit recipe.

Angel Biscuits

A cross between a buttermilk biscuit and a Parker House roll, our angel biscuits taste like they were sent right from heaven to your plate.

www.southernliving.com

Knead just until dough comes together. You don't knead it like you would bread dough. I usually pat out the dough rather than rolling. On the very rare occasions I make biscuits from scratch anymore, I've taken to hard freezing the butter, then grating, using the large holes on a box grater, into the mixing bowl, or onto wax paper.

 

[blissful]

When I was growing up 60's or 70's, there was a boxed product, Chef Boyardee.
It had a crust mix, sauce in a can, and parmesan cheese packet.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/249668373068758425/

The crust was a flour mix, just add milk or water, spread onto the pan. It probably had just a quick raising agent like baking powder/soda, like self rising flour.

 

[msmofet]

Easy bake pizza

 

[Linda0818]

Angel Biscuits

A cross between a buttermilk biscuit and a Parker House roll, our angel biscuits taste like they were sent right from heaven to your plate.

www.southernliving.com

Knead just until dough comes together. You don't knead it like you would bread dough. I usually pat out the dough rather than rolling. On the very rare occasions I make biscuits from scratch anymore, I've taken to hard freezing the butter, then grating, using the large holes on a box grater, into the mixing bowl, or onto wax paper.

That's an excellent idea on the butter! Usually I just cut it into very small pieces, then work it in. But grating is something I'll have to try the next time I make homemade biscuits.

 

[Linda0818]

When I was growing up 60's or 70's, there was a boxed product, Chef Boyardee.
It had a crust mix, sauce in a can, and parmesan cheese packet.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/249668373068758425/

The crust was a flour mix, just add milk or water, spread onto the pan. It probably had just a quick raising agent like baking powder/soda, like self rising flour.

Now there's some nostalgia. My mom would make those for me and my sister once in a while and, to this day, just the smell of one baking (I still buy those from time to time) takes me back.

 

[Linda0818]

Easy bake pizza

I gave up on the homemade pizza idea and my son and I ordered Domino's

I often make homemade pizzas, but I think I'll just wait until I get some regular ole flour and stick with my favorite pizza dough recipes.

 

[blissful]

Now there's some nostalgia. My mom would make those for me and my sister once in a while and, to this day, just the smell of one baking (I still buy those from time to time) takes me back.

I have a girl friend, she is about 60, I'm almost 65. We both remember those pizzas. It brought us back to the 'the time' in our lives. One year I tried to find them for her for a nostalgic christmas present but couldn't find them near me.
Ahhhhhh, the memories of Chef Boyardee pizza kits.
It was so satisfying to make a pizza when I was a little kid. Maybe 10 years old.

 

[dragnlaw]

LOL, I remember those kits! and I also grate my frozen butter, as said, works a charm.

 

[msmofet]

Easy bake pizza

Nothing like a pizza cooked with a light bulb. Thank God. LOL

 

[Linda0818]

I have a girl friend, she is about 60, I'm almost 65. We both remember those pizzas. It brought us back to the 'the time' in our lives. One year I tried to find them for her for a nostalgic christmas present but couldn't find them near me.
Ahhhhhh, the memories of Chef Boyardee pizza kits.
It was so satisfying to make a pizza when I was a little kid. Maybe 10 years old.

I can still find them at Kroger, but don't buy them much anymore. I bought them more often when my son was younger. Anytime his cousin would spend the night with him, the boys wanted those pizzas. Now that they're older (college age) they still spend the night together, believe it or not, but they usually take off and go get Chipotle or Arby's or whatever they're in the mood for.

Which is fine with me. Mom gets the night off from cooking. I told them once in the not-too-distant past "Today I'm pooped and don't feel like cooking, so if you boys want dinner, you'll have to feed yourselves."

Ever since that evening, they've been going out to get their own food

I only meant for that night, but hey, I'll take it.