Breads Yeast: Pita by Recipe Cottage

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	Pita

		2 cakes yeast 2 cups warm water 8 cups unbleached white flour 2 cups whole wheat flour 1/2 Tbs. salt 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. Cover and let rise until doubled (about 1 1/2 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.