Cornmeal Pizza Dough Recipe

Enough for 2 - 15" pizzas, or halve this recipe for a single pizza.

Ingredients:

3 Cups - Bread flour
½ Cup - Yellow cornmeal (fine ground)
1 Teaspoon - Dry yeast
1 Tablespoon - Sugar
½ Teaspoon - Kosher salt
2 Tablespoons - Olive oil
1 Cup - Water

Preparation:

Start the yeast by using ¼ cup warm water, (110° -115° F), and ½ the sugar and the yeast. Mix well and set aside for perhaps ten minutes.

In a mixing bowl add the flour, cornmeal, salt, olive oil, and the remaining ½ sugar. Mix well.

When the yeast has become active (foamy) add it to the bowl and mix.

Add  the remaining water and mix well.

On a flat lightly floured surface, knead the dough until smooth and elastic, (five minutes).

Place in a lightly oiled bowl covered with plastic wrap to rise until doubled in size (one hour).  Punch down and allow to rise a second time.  Long, slow rises are best.

After the second rise, punch down and on a lightly floured surface roll the dough out to make a 15" circle of pizza dough.