"Food Fridays" and Yeast-Free Pizza Crust

Some of you who saw last week's "Food Friday" post may be wondering why I am talking about pizza crust and perhaps if we eat pizza for breakfast.  Well, we do not eat pizza for breakfast, but this has been kind of an unusual week.  I have missed posting, because I came down with the flu on Tuesday afternoon and am now recovering.  Consequently, I have also not been cooking breakfast this week, so I don't have any new breakfast recipes to share.  So, I'll share my yeast-free pizza crust recipe in hopes that it may to be helpful to someone else with an allergy or attempting to avoid yeast for some reason.

We have a recently discovered yeast allergy in our house.  My daughter and myself are both allergic to it, so we try to avoid it in all dishes we eat as a family.  My husband still has regular bread for sandwiches, but the rest of us eat sandwich "roll-ups" using flour tortilla shells.  This actually works quite well.  It's good with peanut butter and jelly and also with mayonnaise, meat and cheese.  We had found good substitutes for most things, such as our "sandwiches," but something that we missed most of all when we discovered we could not eat yeast was pizza.  We love pizza!  At first I thought we could eat yeast occasionally and not have a problem, but that was not the case as trying to have regular pizza every now and then caused symptom flare-up.  Then, I discovered that Pillsbury made a pizza dough crust found near their cinnamon rolls and biscuits in the grocery store, however, I wasn't crazy about that option because of the additives and preservatives that are found in such a processed food.  So, I decided to experiment.  I worked out something that is very similar to my biscuit recipe.  It makes quite a good pizza crust and we love it!  Best of all, it is totally yeast-free!

Yeast-Free Pizza Crust

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour

2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup milk

1/2 cup shortening (I recommend Spectrum Organic Shortening -- 24 oz .)

1. Grease a 9"x13" pan with shortening and pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees F.
2. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl.  Make a well in the center.
3. Pour in milk and add shortening and then mix together.  (I use my hand, but you could also use a spoon).  
4. Put dough in the greased pan and spread it out, pushing it up a bit on the sides to leave a crust edge.
5. Bake for 8 minutes.
6. Remove from oven and top with your favorite sauce, cheese, and toppings.
7. Bake for 8 minutes longer.
8. Enjoy!

Let me know how it works out for you!