Pizza Dough
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INGREDIENTS
- 1 pkg yeast
- 2 Cups Lukewarm water..( 105-115 degrees)
- 1 Cup pastry flour or triple OO flour**
- 4 Tsp. salt
- 5 1/2- 6 cups unbleached white flour
- ** If you don’t have pastry or OO flour , just substitute with your all purpose flour.
DIRECTIONS
- ** Stolen from Bake & Destroy!
- For the dough you will need:
- * 1 pkg yeast
- * 2 Cups Lukewarm water..( 105-115 degrees)
- * 1 Cup pastry flour or triple OO flour**
- * 4 Tsp. salt
- * 5 1/2- 6 cups unbleached white flour
- ** If you don’t have pastry or OO flour , just substitute with your all purpose flour.
- Then you:
- In a bowl stir ( either by hand or with a mixer) the yeast and water until dissolved. Add pastry flour and salt..mix well…add all purpose flour one cup at a time until dough is smooth not sticky. Shape dough into a ball…place in a lightly oiled bowl..turn to coat…cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour, until doubled…Punch dough down…and divide into 6 balls for individual pizzas or 2-3 for a larger pie…let dough rise again for 45 minutes..or until doubled…keep dough cool before using…
- ** photo by smitten on flickr