Bob's Oven Stone Pizza
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 8 minutes
- Servings: 3 normal people or me
- Preparation Time: 4 hrs
- 1 pkg Fleishmans Active yeast 1/4 oz
- 3 cups Gold Medal All Purpose Flour
- 1 Tbs honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbs olive oil
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 8 oz can of Hunts Tomato Sauce
- Black olives, stems and pieces mushrooms, artichoke hearts, to taste
- 3 or 4 handfulls of shredded mozzarella cheese
DIRECTIONS
- mix honey into warm water in a big bowl
- add yeast and let set 10 minutes
- add oil and salt, wisking all together
- add 1 cup flour to get everything mixed well
- add final 2 cups flour, mix with spoon and then use hands, add either flour or little water to get right adhesion
- turn out onto floured surface and kneed for 3 to 5 minutes
- form into a ball and oil the surface
- let rise double in an oiled bowl covered with a clean dish towel for an hour, punch down
- let rise double again one or more hours and punch down
- preheat oven with pizza stone to 550 degrees
- roll out as wide as you can on your pizza peel
- put down a havy dusting of corn meal under dough on the peel and roll out again to limits
- spoon cover the top of the dough with tomato sauce
- add a bed of shredded mozzarella
- add your toppings
- slide (or otherwise manhandle) the dough off the peel onto the oven stone
- bake for 8 minutes
- remove and let cool for 3 minutes
- cut and serve on peel