Grandma’s Tortillas Recipe
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Ingredients: 4 c flour
1 ½ t baking powder
1 t salt
¼ c shortening (lard)
1 ½ - 2 c warm water
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Directions:Put dry ingredients into large bowl or pot. Stir around with hand. Add shortening and mix thoroughly by hand squeezing with fingers until resembles coarse meal. Add water and mix some more. Put the dough to “Sleep” keep it in the bowl and place a cotton cheese cloth towel over it to keep the flies off! It sleeps for about ½ hour and then squeeze into 2” balls line these up on a wooden bread board and on your other bread board salt it with flour and begin rolling with your palote’. If you don’t have a palote’ go to a Mexican store and ask them what one looks like, go to the hardware store and cut one of your very own! I believe the dowel is about a 1 ½ inch dowel. After rolling tortilla into a round or semblance of round shape turning as you go, place on a cast iron grill that has been warmed to medium high adjust heat as needed to not burn your tortilla. Flip your tortilla every 5 seconds until pressing on it with your finger feels like it’s done. You’ll get the hang of it! Cool on the counter sandwiched between a cheese cloth cotton towel, and eat at will! |
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Notes: My Grandma Hope Herndon was a fabulous cook, friends or relatives would come over and in minutes what was a frig with nothing in it according to us kids would turn into an 8 dish feast! Her tortillas were famous amongst us kids especially hot of the cast iron grill with butter or some of her home made preserves on it!! Grandpa made her palote’s (rolling pin) from dowels, and he made little ones for us kids. She was teaching us every chance she got! My kids even got the chance at making Texas or Iowa shaped tortillas!! She’d love that her recipe has gone international! We miss her every day, especially her tortillas that she’d always have a dozen of saved just for me!
P.S. My Aunt Susie had to measure out these items from my Grandma’s hand measurements. You old country folks know what I mean!! I love it!!
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