Cooking Live Pizza Dough

Title:
Cooking Live Pizza Dough

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Cooking




Ingredients:





     1    1/4 ounce pa (2 1/2


          -teaspoons) active dry yeast


   1/2 ts Sugar


     2 tb Olive oil


     2    1/4 cups unbleached


          -all-purpose flour, (up to


          -2)


   1/2 ts Salt






 In a large bowl proof the yeast with the sugar in 1/3 cup lukewarm water


 for 10 minutes, or until it is foamy. Stir in an additional 1/3 cup


 lukewarm water, oil, 2 cups flour, and salt and blend mixture until it


 forms a dough. Knead the dough on a floure d surface, incorporating as much


 of the remaining 1/4 cup flour as necessary to prevent the dough from


 sticking, for 5 to 10 minutes, or until it is smooth and elastic.


 


 Alternatively, the dough may be made in a food processor. Proof the yeast


 as described above and in a food processor combine it with the remaining


 ingredients. Process the mixture until it forms a ball, adding more water,


 1 teaspoon at a time, if it is t oo dry, or more flour, 1 tablespoon at a


 time, if it is too wet, and knead the dough by processing it for 15


 seconds.


 


 Put the dough, prepared by either method, in an oiled bowl and turn it to


 coat it with the oil. Let the dough rise, covered with plastic wrap, in a


 warm place for 1 hour, or until it is double in bulk, and punch it down.


 The dough is now ready to be form ed into pizzas.


 


 Yield: Makes enough dough for one 14-inch pizza or four 7-inch pizzas


 


 Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8861 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #600 by


 "Angele and Jon Freeman" 
on May 6, 1997