Pizza-making party success at Scoville

SALISBURY — Julia Hobart of the Scoville Memorial Library took a group of teenagers through the basics of making pizza on Saturday, Aug. 10.

The dough was ready, but it still needed to be manipulated into a personal pizza size and shape, suitable for a propane-fired tabletop pizza oven outside.

The youngsters prodded their blobs of dough and added sauce, provolone and mozzarella cheese, and a choice of meatballs and peppers, basil, and shallots.

After an intense bout of rock-paper-scissors, Jillian Murphy was the first to have her creation stuck in the oven. She had rolled cheese into the edges of the dough, and everyone was curious as to how this would work out.

It worked out pretty well.

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