Recipe - Cooking Live Pizza Dough

1 One fourth ounce pa (2 1/2
teaspoons) active dry yeast
One half teaspoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Olive oil
2 One fourth cups unbleached
allpurpose flour, (up to
2)
One half teaspoon 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 One fourth 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 14inch pizza or four 7inch pizzas

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8861 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #600 by
"Angele and Jon Freeman" jfreeman@netusa1.net on May 6, 1997