Put 2/3 cup warm pure water, chant Rama, add 1 3/4 teaspoons of yeast, active dry, and 2 1/2 level Tablespoons brown sugar in container of machine. Stir briefly. Allow five minutes, then add 3 Tbspns. of oil, perhaps one olive, two ghee or etc.
Mix together 1 3/4 cups white flour, and 1/2 cup of whole wheat or rye flour with 2/3 tspn. salt. Pour into yeast water mixture already in the machine.
Set the bread making machine to pizza dough cycle. Takes about one hour.
Roll into two medium sized for thin crust, or one large for a thick crust pizza shell. Use oiled pans. Prick with a fork all over the crust. Rama Rama.
Let rise for one hour.
Preheat oven to 365 degrees, cook for eight minutes mid-oven on thick pizza pan or sheet.
Take from oven, cool a little, then brush top with olive oil, and place toppings, such as tomato sauce, pepper, salt, oregano, tiny sprinkle of brown sugar, parmigiano cheese grated, small chopped amount of red onion, small chopped bit of green pepper, good mozzarella or similar light white cheese such as Swizz or Havarti mozarella mix. Hare Rama.
Finish baking now in the preheated oven at 325, until the cheese is bubbling and turning light brown here and there on top. If you made two medium pizzas, you can freeze one after it is partially cooked and topped, then thaw and finish cooking it later.
Offer with water, salad, or as you find nice.
Makes a light airy, crispy beneath but soft inside, crust. By cooking as described, you will get a well cooked dough, not raw inside.
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