Nana’s Flour Tortillas

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Ingredients:

4 cups all purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 tablespoons lard or shortening (sometimes my grandmother used bacon grease for this)
1 ½ cup warm water

Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.

• Use a fork to cut in the shortening. Or do like Nana and just use your hands.
• Make a well in the center and add water to form the dough. Do this slowly.
• Knead dough in bowl until it is smooth. Remember no stickies.
• Cover with wax paper and set aside for ten minutes.
• Form dough into small balls and flatten between palms.
• Sprinkle a little bit of flour onto a smooth surface. With rolling pin, roll each ball into a six inch circle or whatever shape yours turn into at first (this part takes lots of practice and they’ll taste just as good if they turn out looking like Texas.) **Remember to roll from the center out.
• Lift the dough and turn each time.
• Heat comal or iron skillet on the stove for two to three minutes. You want to make sure it’s nice and hot.
• Cook tortillas on the comal, usually one to two minutes on each side. They should have brown speckles all over.
• Drizzle with butter, tuck in the bottom end, roll and enjoy!
• Place the remainder of the cooked tortillas in between wax paper and place in a large re-sealable plastic bag for another day.

Tortillas are great with:

1. Peanut butter and jelly
2. Honey and butter
3. Cinnamon and sugar
4. To make all kinds of burritos
5. For quesadillas
6. To make sandwiches

Use your imagination and have fun! Email me with your favorite ways to eat tortillas.