Recipe: Bread Machine Pizza Dough

Bread Machine Pizza Dough
misc.consumers.frugal-living/Leggewie (1998)

My kids BEG for homemade pizza. They hate pizzeria pizzas and LOVE mine (what a great deal, eh?). I make a huge pizza dough on manual that feeds 5 of us (2 adults and kids 3, 5, & 8). Cost me maybe $2.50 to make it. It takes me about 10 minutes of hands on work. 3 minutes to dump everything in, then I come back in and hour, turn on the oven, roll out the pizza dough, put on the toppings, and bake for 15 minutes. I can have pizza in 1 hour and 15 minutes with only 10 minutes of work...my kind of meal! - Mary

Pizza Dough

1 1/2 tsp yeast (buy in bulk at club stores)
3 cups flour (bread machine flour bought in bulk at club store)
1 1/2 tsp oregano crumbled up (or a little less...for some reason this ingredient makes a fluffy, light crust)
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp oil (I use olive)
1 cup water, heated to 120 degrees in the microwave

Put on manual, turbo speed, white dough. I let it run for an hour, take it out and roll, and roll, and roll...you have to let it sit a minute in between rolling so it stretches out and doesn't spring back...it's very elastic. Spray your pan with butter spray. I use a huge baker's cookie sheet, must be about 20x15-inches and get the dough real thin. Top with Pizza Quick or spaghetti sauce (not too much) and cheese, as well as onions or whatever...

If this is too big, here is a smaller size:

1 tsp yeast
2 cups flour
1 tsp Oregano
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp oil
2/3 cup water

Enjoy! I was able to run an assembly line for one kid's birthday...as soon as the initial kneading was done, I pulled it out and put it in the oven to rise in an oiled pan, and made two more like that. I made 3 pizzas and saved myself about $30 or so! I think I spent $10 for all the pizza stuff, and the kids thought I made the best pizza in the world!