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This was surprisingly easy.
You’ll need to have a cast iron skillet to make these delicious tortillas.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups whole wheat flour (you can use white flour if you have to)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 Tbsp lard
- 1½ to 1¾ cups warm water
Mix the dry ingredients and add the lard, cutting it in with a pastry cutter or two knives (like for biscuits). Add the water slowly while stirring. Only add enough to make a soft, not sticky dough. But remember, whole wheat flour takes up liquids rather slowly. Be patient and gentle.
Turn the dough out onto a clean, floured counter top. Knead gently a few times just till it holds together well. Cut dough into 12 pieces and round ‘em up into balls, gently. Cover with a cloth and let ‘em rest for 10 minutes or so.
Turn on the burner under the skillet to medium so it can pre-heat while the dough balls rest.
Roll the tortillas out to about 6 – 8 inches or so. Cook in dry skillet over medium heat for a couple of minutes on each side. You’ll know when to turn ‘em because they’ll start looking like tortillas, you know, those dark spots.
When you remove them from the skillet just put ‘em on a plate with a towel over ‘em. They stay warm a good while.
Good grief are these delicious. And it really isn’t much work, and it’s certainly not complicated.
Go on, make some to go with your dinner tonight.
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