Eggs in pizza dough?

[v12spirit]

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That bread looks delicious especially with the soft inside. It would be the best mate to afternoon tea. I'll try it adding some sugar, vanilla, and orange zest.

[cobblerdave]

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G'day V-12 spirit
I think you" hit the nail on the head" with that comment. I'm not a great baker, but with simple good ingredients and straight forward methods, I can produce a good result nearly every time.
No way could I even learn what has taken generations of the French and German bakers to achieve.



I made this a little while ago. Its my Nan's soda bread. Its got no written recipe.
I got the general gist of it from my mum as Nan's long gone to God.
Its basically oil and egg beaten together and then self raising flour folded through. You end ip with a batter really. You put it in a small baking dish that has been preheated with a couple of mls of oil ( fat in my Nan's day) in the bottom and bake at a mod temp.
I'm at a loss to know where my Nan's recipe came from? She was Scott's and no Scott friend I have asked has heard of it. It sound a bit like a Yorkshire pudding but its very different more like a savory cake than anything.
So I suppose I do have a bread recipe of a sort with eggs in it even if its a soda bread. It works well with the only change really being the oil used instead of fat
Its simple above all works and every time people like it. So I think I just stick to it
Regards dave

[v12spirit]

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Gudday
Flour, water, salt, yeast add high temps ....bread and pizza
Flour, water,oil, eggs, raising agent add moderate heat.....cakes and biscuits.

Being an amateur baker, I'll stick to this smart rule.

[Greenman]

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However isn't the idea of making it yourself that you can make it however you like?

Petanque - You have nailed it in one. That encapsulates the whole reason for having the WFO out back.

[petanque]

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Brioche a French style bread that has eggs and butter in it.

The fat and eggs will change the texture of the crumb.

In Australia brioche seems trendy with the foodies at the moment.

Personally I don't like it.

However isn't the idea of making it yourself that you can make it however you like?

[cobblerdave]

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Gudday
Flour, water, salt, yeast add high temps ....bread and pizza
Flour, water,oil, eggs, raising agent add moderate heat.....cakes and biscuits.
Yes I make nan bread too but you have to make it at lower temps.
I checked with the local Indian place near we're I work. No eggs.
He was of course not going to give out his secrets but.... Flour ( 10 per cent protein not bread flour I read that on the bags)water, yeast, salt yoghurt and gee. The gee of course is the hard saturated fats part do high temp. The yoghurt probably contributes the sweetness and as he said he dislikes the Greek styles he probably makes his own with a starter.
I personally think it works at the high temps of the tandoor because of his skill and the lack of toppings to mask the dough disk. It was amazing to watch it was hardly thrown in there and it was out slowly deflating on the wooden board.
The smell was really something.
As for me no eggs, oil or fat, or sugar. Keep it simple seems to work for me.
I have added mashed potatoe to the dough but it only works with a lower protein level in the flour and still cooking at a lower temp. Everyone likes it but it doesn't have that"chew" that you come to expect from a proper pizza
Regards dave

[Paul_H]

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I was curious to see if the egg acts as a lubricant as it were in the dough, so in the naan recipe I've been using for years I substituted 1T of olive oil for the egg. Sure enough the resiliency if that's the proper term returned to the dough. Without the egg or oil the dough is somewhat tough and you can't roll it that thin. With the egg or oil the dough can be rolled or stretched very thin.

Seems to have been a hit, no leftovers.

[wotavidone]

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Dunno about in the dough, but back in the 70's when Rocky's was one of the first pizza bars in the state, a Saturday night special was a 4 Seasons with egg and anchovies.

If I remember correctly it was:
smoked oysters, ham, pineapple, chilli, champignons, black olives, egg, anchovies, mozzarella, tomato.

Delightful. I am no fan of added sugar in anything, but the sweetness of the pineapple, the saltiness of the olives and anchovies, the fire of those little pickled chillies he used, all topped with a slightly runny egg was just perfect.

[Paul_H]

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I haven't made pizza dough with eggs, but have been cooking naan for the past couple years and the recipe calls for one egg to the 4 cups of flour. I've occasionally made the dough w/o the egg when the fridge is bear. I can't tell a difference in taste in the dough, especially as I usually onion and/or garlic to the dough, but there is a definate difference in the feel and texture of the dough both when rolling it out and when eating it.

For lack of a better description adding the egg results in a more resilient dough. It just seems lighter and springier and is just seems easier to tear and chew.

[cobblerdave]

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Gudday
Ham and egg pizza.....sauce Ham and cheese...crack egg into you hand and break yolk...scatter through the ham and cheese and bake

[ATTACH][/ATTACH]

Everyone was full so this will be my breakfast

Regards Dave

[TropicalCoasting]

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There was a great pizza place near me about 20 odd years ago they did a garlic prawn and egg pizza it was excellent
It was on top not in though

[Brick Oven Bob]

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Eggs as a dough ingredient is great...for bread. Eggs make a very sticky dough and would be quite difficult to manage in a wood fired oven or, I would imagine, in a deck oven (for pizza in general).

As far as the "smokey flavor", if you are getting that from a WFO, then something isn't exactly right. There should be no such "flavor". There is a unique taste that comes from a wood fired oven and perhaps that is what you are referring to, but I would never consider it as coming from smoke. An 800 degree oven burns so hot that there is no smoke left, it is literally all consumed by the heat.

I would make some batches of dough with and without eggs. Years ago, I got a book called, "Beard on Bread". James Beard was THE authority on all things dough and bread related, as far as I'm concerned. There are some great egg-dough recipes there.

[jimmylorenzetti]

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Looks Awesome Dude!!

[jimmylorenzetti]

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"My wife works with children and its a big problem, youre very lucky no one has suffered from Anaphylactic shock due to the egg"

I'm not selling pizza with eggs in it, I'm just curious what their purpose was in the dough. A lot of pizza out there has some form of egg in it, if they post it or not.
Thanks for all the replys, they are very informative and I appreciate them.

[jimmylorenzetti]

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Thanks azpizzanut, I appreciate the reply, good info.