3/4ozactive dried yeastabout 8 tsp or round up to 3 Tbs
2Tbshoneyor sugar
just over 2 cups lukewarm water
2Tbsolive oil
7-8cupsflour
2Tbssalt
extra flour for kneading
Instructions
Mix the yeast with 2 cups of lukewarm water and honey and let it sit while you measure out the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl and hook up your dough hook. Give a quick stir to distribute the salt evenly, then pour in the yeast and water mix. I can run this a few minutes, until the bowl is being cleaned basically (all the flour incorporated). You might need a bit more water. Knead about 5 minutes, either in your mixer or by hand.
Place in a bowl and make a few slits in the dough with a sharp knife and put in a warm window sill or other place, cover with a towel and let rise until doubled in volume. Depending on weather and how warm your house is this could take an hour or two. If your house is chilly, you can turn the oven on for just a minute to warm it up, then turn it off and place the dough in there with the oven light on.
Divide the dough into 4 pieces. This would be a good time to start preheating your oven, to 475 F or 500F. Put your pizza stone in the oven BEFORE starting to preheat if you're using a stone. It needs to preheat like the oven.
Roll each piece of dough out into a circle about 3/8" high. Let them rise a few minutes. I find large baking pans or trays to be good for this as 4 pizzas take up a fair bit of room! I also learned to poke a bunch of holes in the dough with a fork or paring knife to help keep the dough flat as it bakes. Without toppings on it to weight it down the dough can rise up several inches in places as it's baking. Poking holes in it keeps that from happening. Bake each about 5 minutes, one after the other. Let any you're going to freeze cool, the wrap and freeze.