Pizza dough
Ingredients:
1 tsp. active dry yeast
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1 1/2 cups lukewarm water (105 to 115° F)
2 tsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. olive oil
Crisco (for greasing pans)
Preparation:
Prepare dough sponge and proof yeast by mixing yeast, 1/2 cup flour, and 1/2
cup water with pinch of sugar dissolved in the water in a bowl and letting
stand for 20 minutes until mixture is foamy.
Combine remaining flour with cornmeal or semolina and salt.
Mix 1/2 of flour mixture, remaining water with
sugar dissolved in it, olive oil, and dough sponge. Mix in remaining flour
mixture . Knead 10 minutes on a floured surface until smooth.
Place dough in lightly greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise until
doubled. Punch dough down, divide into portions, dust with flour, and store in
refrigerator until ready to use.
For a stuffed deep-dish pizza, remove dough from refrigerator when ready to
shape into crust .
Divide dough into portions for bottom crust and top cover crust. Punch down
dough thoroughly and spread/stretch each dough portion by hand and roller on a
greased pizza pan.
Place bottom crust into greased deep-dish pan.
Add stuffing mixture and cover with top crust. Seal the two dough edges together
with fingers . Slit the top crust in three places to allow steam to vent during
baking.
Add tomato sauce topping and bake in
preheated 450° F oven on lower rack or directly on the pizza stone for 25
minutes or until crust is golden brown.
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