Bread Maker Pizza Dough Recipe

bread loaves
Making Bread

My bread maker died a few weeks ago and I decided I would begin to make my own bread. I try not to eat too much bread and I mostly used the bread-maker for making pizza dough on Friday nights.

I looked online and found a recipe for homemade bread that was supposedly WONDERFUL… It had to be kneaded for 10 minutes! Are you kidding me? So I made it and got a good arm workout. The bread wouldn’t rise.

Most likely because it’s winter and my house is only around 65 degrees – no where near the 80 degrees suggested for rising.

Even when I heated the oven and stuck the dough in there, it still didn’t do much.

I got a few loaves – the small ones were edible but the large ones were doughy inside.   I tried this recipe once more and still didn’t have much luck so I made Bread Pudding – which no one ate either!  So I gave up on that recipe.

I now have a new bread maker (West Bend)…and it has 2 paddles in the bottom of the pan, which I had never heard of, but this machine didn’t come with a pizza dough recipe!!  Oh no….BUT at Amazon.com (where I purchased it)  a lady had left a message about this machine saying she always made pizza dough too and used the bagel recipe instead.

I used it Friday to make pizza dough (which was a combination of the bagel recipe and my old pizza dough recipe) and it was delicious…even better than my old dough would come out.
So below is the recipe for my bread maker pizza dough.  In case you like to make your own.  Add ingredients in this order and use the dough setting.  Mine takes an hour and a half to complete.


    PIZZA DOUGH
    1 cup water @ 80 degrees
    1 1/2 Tbsp. Olive oil
    3 Cups of Bread flour
    1 1/2 tsp. sugar
    1 1/2 tsp. salt.
    2 tsp. active dry yeast

I used this to make one large pizza with semi-thick crust. Add some spices such as onion and/or garlic powder and oregano to give the crust a nice flavor.  I also bake the crust first @ 425 for about 10 minutes, then add sauce and toppings and bake @ 425 for about 15 minutes – or until it looks cooked.

My Seashell Collection

Do you ever come across an old post that is just awful? Well that is what this one was. So now it’s updated, with a link that works. It’s still not a great read, but it’s better.

My original post idea was to share some pictures of my seashells, but this one photo covers it pretty much. I gathered as many interesting shells from my Florida shell collection as I could and took a picture.

If I could still find this image on my computer I would put a big watermark over it, but since I can’t, please don’t steal this image and use it for yourself.

If winter has you down, close your eyes and imagine that you have just filled your bucket with some wonderful sea life specimens.

Are you seashell knowledgable?  Can you spot the sea biscuit, sea urchin, sundial, cowry, lighting whelk, and kitten’s paw?  If you found a rare seashell, would you know it?  Maybe you need a seashell identification lesson.  I write about seashells (and other tropical subjects) on my Seashells by Millhill blog.

Sea shells

For those who don’t know, I lived in central Florida from 1979 to 2005. Over the years I traveled to Sanibel Island and Fort Myers a couple of times (wish it could have been more) and went to New Smyrna beach hundreds (?) of times – it was only a 30 minute drive.

The kids and I collected numerous shells and I brought the collection back to New England when I moved here.  I’ve been photographing them for a couple of years now for my Seashells by Millhill online store.

The Little Bridge in Winter

I found out this past Fall that a beaver, or beaver family, had built a dam under this bridge. A neighbor had mentioned it to me and said that it was preventing the water from flowing under the bridge.

Sure enough a couple of days later I saw a tractor on the bridge and knew what they were doing. They removed the dam.

I don’t know what the poor beavers did, but they hopefully chose a better place to build and got their new house build before the winter.
Little Bridge in Winter postcard
New England Winter Postcards

It’s one of my favorite spots to take pictures. The views from the bridge or towards it are all beautiful and I used up my camera battery all too quickly.