Basic Pizza Dough (family secret recipe) Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 envelopes (16 gram total) dry yeast 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar 4 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons tenderflake or crisco (tenderflake gives golden colour) 8 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (depending on your thickness) 1 1/2 tablespoons salt 1 bottle of beer In a seperate measuring cup add 1/2 cup of luke warm water In a seperate measuring cup add 2 cups of cold water
As a rule 2 cups of flour makes a regular crust 16" pizza.
This recipe is for 4 regular crust 16" pizza's.
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Directions:In a seperate measuring cup add 1/2 cup of luke warm and add 2 envelopes yeast and 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar. Mix and let sit for 6 to 10 minutes. In a seperate measuring cup add 2 cups of cold and add 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of lard (tenderflake and crisco). In a large dough mixing bowl add 8 cups of flour. Turn on dough mixing machine on speed 2 and add the yeast mixture slowly. Add the beer slowly and then add the 2 cup water mixture slowly. Once the dough blends well together and has a smooth texture remove it from bowl and roll it into a long sausage shape and cut in 4 even slices. Knead the dough until it is smooth, springy, pliant into 4 balls. This should take about 5 to 8 minutes. Return the dough on a oiled pan and cover with a damp cloth, and let rise until doubled. Rising generally taken 2 to 3 hours. Makes four large 16 inch pizzas. |
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