overview of pizza recipe

hey guys!found a very brief or overview of the frozen pizza..this might give us a rough idea so that we can countercheck with a detailed process.


Frozen pizza process

Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 4303677

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Abstract:
A prepared specialty frozen food product and method. The product is a frozen pizza with a filling-receiving crust portion made from a bread dough and a filling portion received within the crust. The method comprises preparing a bread dough product, subdividing the bread dough into individual dough elements, permitting the dough elements to rise, placing the dough elements within a forming pan having a flat, lower surface portion and an upwardly and outwardly tapering sidewall surface and pressing the dough elements within the pan so as to form the dough elements into flat sheets substantially co-extensive with the lower pan surface portion. Next, the dough sheets are allowed to rise, and are re-pressed so as to further exclude the dough radially. This causes the dough sheet to assume the contours of the pan bottom and sidewall and causes the crust to assume substantially uniform thickness in the bottom and sidewall areas of the pan. Then, the crust is at least partially baked, is removed from the pan and placed in a container other than the forming pan. Finally, the crust is filled and frozen.

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Title:
Method of preparing a frozen pizza

Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 4271200
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Abstract:
A frozen pizza and method. The pizza includes a frozen crust portion and a filling portion for receiving the pizza sauce or other filling. The crust includes a generally flat filling-receiving center section of predetermined thickness, height and density, and this center section is surrounded by an edge portion which is formed integrally with the center section portion. The edge portion is of increased height and decreased density with respect to the respective height and density of the center section portion. The edge portion has an inner sidewall which serves to confine the filling portion to the center section of the pizza product. The method includes the steps of permitting limited rise of the dough during crust formation, and then depressing or debossing the center section of the dough sheet to increase its density and reduce its height, while permitting the outer margin of the sheet to rise naturally to greater height and to assume a reduced density.