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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.

Patrick L. Sullivan
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Patrick Sullivan has been a reporter for The Lakeville Journal since 2004, covering everything from town meetings to local characters and the outdoors. He grew up in Northern Virginia but spent summers on Mount Riga in Salisbury, giving him a lifelong connection to the Northwest Corner. A graduate of Denison University, Patrick is also the author of Tangled Lines, the newspapers’ popular fly-fishing column—making The Lakeville Journal, as far as anyone knows, the only newspaper in Connecticut with a regular fly-fishing columnist. He once received a fan letter from England, which he considers sufficient evidence that his work has achieved international acclaim.
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