Pizza Ag Mag for PDF
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to make wheat into flour for pizza dough. After the wheat is ... has less protein than other types of wheat used to make pizza. crusts. ...
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Pizza Ag Mag for PDFPage 1Surprising SlicesThe average family eats pizzaat home 30 times a year.Survey says... kids between3 and 11 choose pizza overany other food.We eat more pizza during Super BowlWeek than any other week of the year.Each of us eats about 23 pounds ofpizza a year. Thats about 46 slices.Get a Rise Out of YeastWhen warm water is added to yeast it activates enzymes in the dough thatconvert starch into sugar. Carbon dioxide gas is created and the gas bubblescause the dough to rise. The gas bubbles remain trapped in the bread and giveit a light airy texture.Try this experiment to see yeast in action:1. Mix a teaspoon of sugar and a half teaspoon of yeast in a twoliter popbottle. Add two or three inches of warm water and shake the mixture.2. Stretch a balloon over the top of the bottle.What happened? What might happen to the balloon in the next 30minutes? Would the yeast work faster if youused hot water cool water or more sugar?TomatoesPizza sauce is made from tomatoes. Tomatoplants take 75 to 85 days to produce ripefruit. The seeds are usually started indoorsand then transplanted outdoors after theseedlings are four to six weeks old. Ingardens or greenhouses the plants aresupported with stakes to keep them fromfalling to the moist ground. When tomatoesare ripe they are carefully packed into boxesand sent to grocery stores. Some tomatoesare sent to canneries where they areprocesses for sauces orketchup. Specialherbs such asoregano dill andgarlic are added totomatoes used inpizza sauce to giveit a special taste.Page 2Pizza Puzzlers Pizza sales total more than $20 billiondollars a year. What does your familyspend on pizza in a week? As a nation we eat 100 acres of pizza perday (1 acre = a football field). Thats 350slices every second! If two slices equals a poundhow many pounds of pizza does your class eat eachyear? Most Americans prefer pepperoni on their pizzas. Oddlytuna is a popular toppings in Europe. Survey your class tosee who prefers what toppi ...
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