Pizza Dough
Mix in order listed.
Use enough flour to make a soft dough.
Knead dough until it is nice and smooth, and all ingredients are well
incorporated. Cover dough and let raise
for 30 minutes in a warm place (I like to turn my oven on the lowest
temperature until preheated while I am making the dough, then I turn the oven
off and use the warm oven to help my dough raise.) Form into pizza crusts to your desired
thickness, or form into breadsticks. Bake at 400-425 degrees for about 15 minutes
depending on the size of the pizza and thickness of the crust. This recipe makes a lot, so I will use ¼ the
recipe to make two small/medium pizzas instead, or ½ the recipe for two medium
pizzas and some breadsticks.
3 cups warm water
1 Tbl. salt
2 Tbl. sugar
2 Tbl active dry yeast
7-8 cups flour
Breadsticks- My favorite is cheese stuffed breadsticks. To make these, I form my dough into two 8
inch circles about ¼ inch thick. On my
bottom circle I will pile a fair amount of my pizza cheese, spreading the
cheese out to about ½ inch from the edge of the crust. Then I get my finger tips wet with water, run
my finger tips around the edge of the dough to moisten it and help it seal and
keep the cheese from leaking out during baking.
Then I place my top circle of dough over the bottom circle and the
cheese and I crimp the edges of the dough with my fingers to seal. I also cut a few vents in the top of the
dough to let the steam out and to keep an air bubble from forming in the middle
of the breadsticks. I then take a little
butter and spread it over the top of the dough, and sprinkle the dough with
garlic powder, parsley flakes and parmesan cheese. Bake until golden brown. Do not bake breadsticks with anything else in
the oven, especially not anything underneath the breadsticks or the bottom layer
of dough will not brown and cook all the way through before the top is done.
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