Pita Bread #2

From: msf1707@is.NYU.EDU (Mitchell Feller)

Date: 23 Apr 1995 06:41:15 -0600
PITA (aka Lebanese Bread, pocket bread, middle-eastern bread, etc.). Great
recipe to make with kids. If your oven has a glass door, they can watch
each pita blow up in a ball as it cooks).

Dissolve yeast in water. Measure out flour and salt in a large bowl. Mix
in yeast and water mix along with enough extra water to make a very stiff
dough. Knead until smooth. (It may be easier to put the yeast and water
mix in another large bowl and mix in the flour one or two cups at a time)

Cover and let rise until doubled (about 1.5 hours, depending on the
temperature). Punch the dough down. Roll out balls of dough about 3
inches in diamater. Be sure to roll them until they are smooth. Put the
balls on a tray, tightly cover with plastic wrap, and let rise for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 525 (No typo. Five-hundred twenty five degrees F). One
at at time, roll each ball out into a circle about pita sized (8 or 9
inches). Put it on a wooden board and slide it into the oven onto an
upside-down cookie tray. In a few moments, the pita will blow up like a
beach ball. While it cooks, roll out the next one. The pita is done when
light brown spots start to appear (only a few minutes). Take the pita out,
put it on a towel and cover it with another towel. Stack the cooked pitas
on top of one each other and keep the stack covered until they cool off.
They should flatten out. (Be careful flattening it yourself. They are
filled with very hot steam when they come out of the oven).

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