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# Basic Pizza Dough
# "Basic" Pizza Dough
When I first set out to become a pizza-making pro, I got myself a bread-machine, and looked up a recipe online. What I found was a post from a guy named Mitch on his "fabulous" website. Note: this recipe is not that recipe.
I've made this recipe dozens of times, and while the secret ingredient is the same as Mitch's, what follows is my spin on the old classic.
## Tools
* Bread-Machine with a 'dough' cycle.
The bread machine mixes the ingredients, and gives some heat to encourage the dough's rising. It does this in 90 minutes. I've been using the Oster 5834, picked up for $6 from a thrift store, which is designed to make a 2 pound loaf. With a little ingenuity, you can replicate what this gadget does, but I won't be covering that here.
## Ingredients
* Flour: use white flour, or bread flour. Don't use whole-wheat flour.
* Oil: extra virgin olive oil is best.
* Honey: if it's become hard, you may need to warm it up so it can be poured.
* Warm water: not hot, not cold, not room-temperature (well, depending on the room).
* Yeast: not dead (check the expiration date). Regular yeast or bread machine yeast is fine. "pizza dough yeast" will yield stickier dough.
* Salt (make sure it hasn't lost its saltiness).
## Quantities
This makes 2 large pizzas (thick crust). It will fill the bread machine, possibly even squishing against the window of the bread-machine, depending on the current climate.
* 7 Cups of Flour
* ¼ Cup of Oil
* About ¼ Cup of Honey
* 2 Cups of Warm Water
* 1 teaspoon-ish of salt
* 1 packet of yeast
## Instructions
* Add water and oil to bread machine.
* Add flour to bread machine.
* Add honey around flour.
* Add salt around flour.
* Make an indentation in the flour with your finger and pour the yeast into it.
* Close lid and set bread-machine on 'dough' setting.
* Start bread-machine.
* After about ten minutes, look in to see if there's a lump of dough. Optionally stir or add a little water/oil if it'a not looking good yet.
* Wait...
When the bread-machine is done, you can separate the dough into two lumps, and spread them onto 12×16" cookie sheets, or similar.
Instructions for decorating and cooking your pizza are not covered here.
## Contributing
If you have any gemini-posts which could be follow-ups for the recipe, please drop me a line, I'd love to link them here!
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