Pizza crust, pizza prepared from the same and method of baking a pizza using micro-wave energy

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A pizza capable of being baked using micro-wave energy, i.e. in a micro-wave oven, while remaining crisp is prepared from a dough comprising: (i) from about 75 percent to about 82 percent by weight flour preferably, a medium to weak strength bleached low gluten flour:, (ii) up to about 5 percent by weight shortening animal, or vegetable shortening; and (iii) from about 18 percent to about 25 percent by weight moisture. In preparing the pizza, a dough of the above composition is shaped into the shape of a pizza crust and thereafter dried in a convection or micro-wave oven to a moisture content of from about 3 percent to about 8 percent by weight. After the addition of pizza toppings, i.e. …