Best Pizza Dough EVER

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 10:28:20 EST From: mmk3@Lehigh.EDU (MARGARET M. KING) Adapted from the EatingWell May'92 issue Semolina Pizza Dough 1/4 tsp. sugar or 1 tsp honey 2 pkg active dry yeast (2Tbsp) 21/2 tsp. salt 2 cups semolina flour 2 1/3-2 2/3 cups all purpose flour In a large bowl, dissolve sugar or honey in 2 cups warm water. Sprinkle in yeast and let sit for 5 min. or until foamy. Stir in salt. With a wooden spoon, stir in semolina flour and enough white flour to make a firm soft dough. Knead for 8-10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic, additional white flour as needed to prevent it from sticking. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl (quick spray w/pam) and cover with plastic. Let rise for 1 1/2 -2 hours , or until doubled. Notes: The dough can be made ahead to this point, punched down, enclosed in a large plastic bag and stored in fridge for up to 2 days or in freezer for up to 2 months. Defrost for at least 8 hours in fridge and then bring to room temp. Makes 8 6-inch crusts. I usually make half a recipe and then freeze half of that half. To cook/assemble: Heat oven to highest baking setting. Place stone,tiles, or inverted baking sheet on lowest rack of oven (first time I noticed inverted:) Form dough into rounds and place on cornmeal dusted pizza peel or inverted cookie sheet. Add your toppings as desired. Carefully slide the pizzas from the peel or baking sheet onto heated stone or heated baking sheet. Bake for 10-14 minutes or until bottoms crisp or browned. (I never use the 2 cookie sheet method-no dishwasher-I simply use 1 unheated cookie sheet works fine for me)

THREE BROTHERS BANANA BREAD

(Actually should be Two Brothers because one of 'em doesn't like it. But he doesn't like anything.)

INGREDIENTS

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

DIRECTIONSPreheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar.
Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. S
tir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. ****
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.
Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.


**** Or, if you are like me, and you have one of those ridiculously expensive bot oh-so-worth-it stand mixers, just dump everything in the bowl and hit the switch! Worth the $300 just to not have to go through all those steps.