Pita Bread

6 cups warm water
2 tsp. yeast
1 tbsp. honey
16 cups flour (If milling your own flour use:10 cups wheat berries: 1 Barley; 1 Rye & 1 cup oatmeal)
2 tsp salt

Mix the yeast in the warm water and add the honey and gently stir with a wooden spoon. Cover and let stand 10 minutes. Add the salt and then the flour one cup at a time and continue to stir with a wooden spoon until all of the ingredients forms a ball.

Once all of the ingredients form a ball, place the ball on a work surface, such as a cutting board, and knead the dough for approximately 10 minutes (or until your hands get tired). If you are using an electric mixer, mix it at low speed for 10 minutes.

A simple hand kneading technique is to firmly press down on the dough with the palm of your hand, fold the dough in half toward you like you are closing an envelope, rotate the dough 90 degrees and then repeat these steps.

When you are done kneading the dough, place it in a bowl. Form a ball out of the dough and place it into the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a damp kitchen towel and set aside, away from cold drafts, to rise until it has doubled in size, approximately 90 minutes.

When it has doubled in size, punch the dough down to release some of the trapped gases and divide it into small orange size pieces. Roll each piece into a smooth ball and set aside while you finish rolling all the dough into balls .

Spread a light coating of flour on a work surface and place one of the balls of dough there. Sprinkle a little bit of flour on top of the dough and use a rolling pin and your hands to stretch and flatten the dough. You should be able to roll it out to between 1/8 and 1/4 inch thick. Spread a sheet or light cloth on the counter or table and place the rolled pita on a sheet and cover with a light towel. Add each pita to the sheet when finished rolling.

Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Place a cookie sheet on the middle rack of the oven while you are preheating the oven. This will be the surface on which you bake your pitas. When the oven is hot take out the cookie sheet and place two or three rolled pitas on the cookie sheet. Make sure they are not touching each other. Allow them to bake until they are completely puffy, about 3-5 minutes. Flip them over for an additional minute and remove from the oven an place on clean towel to cool.

Repeat until all the pitas are baked.