Square Pizza

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Seven  Creeks  Roadside  Spring Water</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Seven Creeks Roadside Spring Water"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id403.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OddsEnds"><B><IMG SRC="0720e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><A HREF="id420.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ice Flows"><B><IMG SRC="0730e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I>Square Pizza</I></div> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="square_pizza"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Square Pizza</FONT></div> <div> If you want great tasting square pizza ( also known as <A HREF="id21_history_of_pizza.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact/Links">Sicilian Pizza</A> ), don't go to Italy, New York, San Francisco, or Chicago, go to the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><U>Ohio Valley Area, home of the square pizza</U></FONT>. Until the 1960's there were no round pizza stores in the area, only square ones, that is why the numerous square pizza shops of the area have perfected the art of cooking square pizza.  </div> <div>      What does the shape have to do with taste? Everything. It has a taste entirely different than the conventional round pizza that is impossible to describe so you will have to take my word on it until you get to try one yourself.              There are a bunch of square pizza shops in the area and each has a slightly different taste however they all make their pizza the same way. </div> <div>      On a busy evening it looks like a production line. The dougher  stretches the dough onto the rectangular greased metal trays by hand. The dough is pressed at the edge of the pan using the fingers so it will form a slight lip to keep the sauce from running onto the tray. </div> <div>      The cooker takes the dough lined metal tray and covers it with a thin layer of sauce and places it into one of the temperature controlled levels of the large pizza oven. The oven is gas fired and has three levels, each adjusted to a different temperature and each level has a large door hinged at the bottom so it can be swung down horizontal and can support the tray as it is slid in and  out. Each level can hold two pizza trays. The tray and dough are placed in the top level. As the dough begins to rise large bubbles form in the dough. The cooker opens the door and slides the tray forward and with a large two prong fork pokes the bubbles to remove them and also looks at the underside of the pizza. Once browned enough, a little more sauce is added and it is moved to a lower level of the oven to finish cooking. It has to be cooked just so, other wise the crust will not have that famous crunchy texture. The cooker then pulls the tray from the oven and places it on the cutting table. </div> <div>      There the cutter holds the pizza with a  two pronged fork in one hand and, using a knife with the other (no wheel cutters here) , pulls the knife in three quick distinct surgical motions, moving the fork each time in order to cut the large rectangular pizza lengthwise into three long strips. The tray is then rotated 90 degrees and the pizza is cut again six times using the same fork and knife motions until in the end there are small  4 inch square pizzas.  </div> <div>      The pizza tray is then passed to two boxers who put the small pizzas into 10 inch by 12 inch boxes, a maximum of seven pizza squares  per box and add the final toppings such as pepperoni, mushroom, anchovies, etc. and cover with mozzarella cheese. The heat from the hot pizzas melt the cheese and gives the pizza a unique taste.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="18add9a30.jpg" border=0 width="217" height="163" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFCC33" FACE="Arial" >A square pizza box with four pizza left</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>