75-Minute Pizza Dough

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1995

Make your dough with bread flour, stretch it instead of rolling, and line your oven with quarry tiles for the best, easiest homemade pizza.

SERVES2 large, 4 medium or 8 individual pizzas

TIME35 minutes, plus 40 minutes rising

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our pizza dough recipe we found that using rapid-rise yeast proofed in warm water cuts the rising time down to a mere 40 minutes. We also found that the dough could simply be stretched to the desired thickness, whether you want a medium...

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