Mother Yeast is the secret for an extremely soft and tasty piece of pizza. It is a real live organism that not only feeds on water and flour, but that also “breathes” in the air from the environment in which it lives.
Thankfully Giovanni Pillitteri has successfully preserved its 117 year fermented yeast (Mother yeast) and continues using it today throughout production of frozen pizza dough balls which is supplied throughout UK and Europe.
It is a process that defines delicious pizza dough that is hard to re-create any other way…