Bread Machine Pizza Crust

 I love my bread machine.  I use it at least a couple times a week, usually to make dough of some sort.  It took me quite a while, though, to find recipes that worked well every time.  Sometimes a recipe would work great once, but the next time it would turn out awful.  It took me forever to find a pizza crust recipe that I liked, so I would often end up buying a mix.  I'd much rather make it homemade, so I was very happy when I found this recipe.  I have been using it all the time, and haven't had a bad batch yet! 


Ingredients:
1 cup lukewarm water
2 T milk
2 T olive oil
1 1/4 t. salt
1 T sugar
3 cups bread flour
2 t bread machine yeast



Run on dough cycle.  When the cycle is complete, roll out onto a large round pizza pan.  I like to use the kind with holes in the bottom.  The dough should not be terribly sticky, but you will still want to put a little cooking spray on your pan and on your hands as you roll it out.  After I roll out the crust, I like to put it over top of my oven vent while the oven preheats.  This gives the crust a chance to rise a little bit, and it also cooks the bottom of the crust ever so slightly so that it doesn't get soggy when you put the sauce on it.    Let it sit there for about 10 minutes, then top and cook at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. 



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