What is the difference between pie crust and pizza dough? Is it the same? can I use pizza dough for pie crust?
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Pizza dough is a yeast risen dough like bread. In fact many people use store bought bread dough for pizza. Pie pastry is flour fat and enough water to bind it. It has no leavening. If you use pizza dough, it may be OK, but it is not going to be like a normal pie,it will be bready.
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They are all doughs but for very different uses. Pie dough is a 'short dough'. It has lots of fat (shortening, oil, lard, butter), a soft flour with little gluten in it and nothing to make the dough 'rise'. It's supposed to be tender and/or flaky. It bakes up golden brown and crisp hopefully. It's used in a pie shell or even on a flat pan to wrap around a filling of some kind. PIzza dough is really just bread dough. It is a gluten type flour with yeast or sourdough to make it rise nice and fluffy and if thin enough may be a little crisp or dry like a cracker, but in any shape it should stay together and is definitely not light and flaky, tender like a pie dough. It isn't appropriate for pie unless you want a doughy bread for your crust. It might not even rise or cook through if the filling were very wet.
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Essentially pie crust is made to hold the shape of the container it is in, to support the ingredients inside. Pizza crust is oily, and moreso designed to be a cushion for toppings. however it must be noted that the name Pizza-pie is for a reason, it can be made in the same fashion as any other pie. The difference in these is because they taste different, and are tailored to the flavors they usually hold. Pie crust is accustomed to be a neutral taste for sweet flavors, and not as oily. Pizza crust is tailored for meat, cheese, and vegetables with a large amount of oil. Up to you really, its just the fact that they will taste different.
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