Flour Tortillas
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
-
8 tortillas
ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 cup water, lukewarm
directions
- Combine flour and salt; cut in shortening with a pastry blender until fine particles.
- Add the warm water gradually and toos with fork to make a stiff dough.
- Form into a ball and knead thoroughly on a lightly floured board until smooth and flecked with air bubbles.
- To make dough easier to handle, cover tightly and refrigerate 4-24 hours before using; let return to room temperature.
- Divide dough into 8 balls (or the recipe says 11 balls for 8 inch tortillas) and roll as thinly as possible on a lightly floured board or between sheets of waxed paper.
- Drop onto a very hot ungreased cast iron skillet or griddle and cook about 20 seconds.
- Turn and cook a few seconds on other side.
- Repeat with remaining tortillas.
- Either use at once, or these can be tightly wrapped and refrigerated or frozen.
- If desired, you can replace 1/2 cup of the flour with cornmeal or wheat flour (my kids won't eat it that way -- yet!).
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I'm a stay at home mom with 3 adorable children-an 8 year old daredevil son, a 5 1/2 year old princess and a wild little 2 year old girl! I love to cook, and like having my little helpers in the kitchen!
I usually love recipes that are completely from scratch (I still love them actually) but right now my focus is on having any kind of food ready by mealtime! It's a little crazy here lately. Every summer we have a huge organic garden, apple orchard and raspberry and blueberry patches, along with a woods full of wild foods waiting for me to learn what they are so I can collect them. I'm learning about wild mushrooms first, so if anyone has any tips, let me know. We also eat wild venison which my husband and I hunt ourselves. It's our favorite meat, since it's lean, organic and cheap! Some of my hobbies are: hiking, biking, rock climbing, gardening, playing in the water with my kids, or just swinging in the hammock with a good book. I go stir crazy if I spend too much time inside.