75-Minute Pizza Dough

Name: 75-Minute Pizza Dough
Yield: 2 large, 4 medium or 8 individual pizzas
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups, water, warm (about 105 degrees); 1 envelope, rapid-rise dry yeast; 1 tablespoon, granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons, olive oil; 4 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour, plus extra as needed; 1 1/2 teaspoons, table salt; , Vegetable oil (or cooking spray) for bowl

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1995

Main Courses

Italian

Pizza

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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