20.5.08

New York-Style Pizza Crust Recipe

Ingredients:


* 2/3 cup warm water

* 1/2 teaspoon salt

* 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

* 1 teaspoon sugar

* 2 teaspoons active dry yeast

* 1 tablespoon cornmeal -- optional


Directions:


Measure carefully, placing all ingredients except cornmeal in bread machine pan in order

specified by owner's manual. Program dough cycle setting; press start. Remove dough from bread

machine pan; let rest 2 to 3 minutes.

Pat and gently stretch dough from edges until dough seems to not stretch anymore. Let rest 2 to 3

minutes more. Continue patting and stretching until dough is 12 to 14 inches in diameter. Spray

12- to 14-inch pizza pan with cooking spray; sprinkle with cornmeal, if desired. Press dough into

pan.

Preheat oven to 450°F. Follow topping and baking directions for individual recipes, baking pizza

on bottom rack of oven.




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