I'll be honest...I was feeling adventurous one day and made some flour tortillas. From scratch. That is a pretty big deal for me. I love buying the easy to access tortillas..so easy.
BUT with that said, I will say that these were incredibly easy and tasted pretty good!
3 cups unbleached flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4-6 TB. shortening or lard
approx. 1 1/4 c. warm water
1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Add shortening. Use a fork or pastry cutter to cut in the shortening or just use your hands.
3. Next, add warm water a little at a time until your dough is soft and sticky. The water doesn't need to be very hot.
4. Knead the dough for a few minutes.
5. Pull off pieces of dough to form about 12 small dough balls. Let them rest for 10 minutes or longer.
6. Start to heat up griddle. I used a cast iron pan (worked awesome). Set the temp at medium to high heat. Be careful that it isn't too hot or the tortillas will cook too fast.
7. Roll the dough out with your rolling pin or palote. Dust each ball with a little flour before you roll them out. Lay the rolling pin in the center of the dough ball and roll up, center and roll down. Lift the dough and turn it. Roll fairly thin and even.
8. Lay your tortilla on the heated pan. It takes a few seconds to cook. Flip. Should have a lot of brown specks. Place them in a towel.
*Found at http://www.texasrollingpins.com/tortillarecipe.html
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