US 6,126,977 A · Method of making laminated pizza crust

Abstract

A method for making a laminated pizza crust is disclosed herein. The pizza crust is produced by resting a formulated dough mixture, cutting the dough, rolling the dough into a sheet, extruding high-melt margarine on to the sheet and folding it over the margarine to form a fatted dough, stretching the fatted dough, piling the fatted dough onto itself to create several layers, stretching the dough a second time, piling and rolling the dough again, stretching the dough a final time to a predetermined thickness, puncturing the dough sheet, cutting the dough sheet into pre-determined pizza shapes, and finally baking the shapes. The baked crust can be topped with pizza ingredients and frozen. Upon reheating by the consumer in either the microwave or a conventional oven, the crust exhibits an improved texture, flakiness, and flavor.

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Dependent claims

A method for making multi-layered, laminated pizza crusts, said method comprising the sequential steps of:

providing a dough product;
proofing said dough product;
forming said dough product into a sheet using a plurality of first rolling means;
extruding a margarine layer onto said sheet;
folding said sheet over said margarine layer to form a fatted dough;
stretching said fatted dough into a fatted sheet using a first stretching means, said first stretching means including a series of rollers applied to said fatted dough;
distributing said fatted sheet onto a conveyor using a first piling means to overlap said fatted sheet on said conveyor;
reforming said fatted sheet to a predetermined thickness;
wherein said folding, stretching, distributing and reforming steps produce a folded dough having a plurality of margarine layers distributed between layers of dough;
puncturing said fatted sheet;
cutting said fatted sheet into pieces;
and
baking said pieces.

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Method of making laminated pizza crust

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