Master Recipe For Pizza Dough

Serves: 4

Cierra Adams

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

49

Spice

52

Sweetness

49

Sourness

40

mins

Prep time (avg)

5.4

Difficulty

Ingredients:

2 tbsps

Dry Yeast

Directions:

1

In a small bowl or cup combine milk with 3/4 cup water that is warm to the touch (about 125 degrees)

2

Sprinkle dry yeast or crumble fresh yeast over

3

Stir once and let sit in a warm spot until it foams, 10 to 20 minutes

4

In a large bowl combine 3 cups flour with salt

5

Pour yeast mixture over flour, stirring with a wooden spoon to mix well

6

Dough will be very wet

7

Generously flour a work surface and turn out dough

8

Begin kneading, adding extra cake flour a handful at a time or less, scraping up and turning dough with a dough scraper

9

You will need about 10 minutes to knead and add flour

10

Dough is ready when it is smooth, silky and just past stickiness

11

Do not add too much flour or dough will be very dry

12

Gather up dough in a ball

13

Lightly oil a large bowl, add dough and cover tightly with plastic wrap

14

Let rise at room temperature about 2 hours or until doubled

15

Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and cut into 4 even pieces

16

Shape into rough rounds, about 7 inches in diameter, 1/4-inch thick with a 3/8-inch-thick rim

17

Transfer to pizza peels or baking sheets sprinkled lightly with cornmeal

18

Cover loosely with towels and let rise 10 to 60 minutes

19

Top and bake according to recipe instructions