Flour Tortillas

I must confess I usually buy tortillas. However, on occasion I will make them from scratch.  They really are really tasty & my husband and son love them homemade. 

 Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour
5 T. lard or shortening
1 tsp. salt
1 to 1 1/4 cups warm water

In a big bowl put the flour, lard, & salt. Now with your hand dig in and crumble it all together like if you were making biscuits or a pie crust. The goal is to get the shortening into the flour in tiny little pieces. (I forgot to take a picture of this but you get the idea)

Then add in 1 cup warm water. Mix and then knead with your hand.  If there is a lot of flour in the bowl add a little more water. It will be a fairly stiff dough. But most of the flour should come off the sides of the bowl.--you can see that in the below picture of the just tiny bit of dough on the sides of the bowl.
Now bread this up into little balls and flatten them out a little 'below'.  Cover this with a towel and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

Dough rounds

 

After 10 minutes roll out your tortillas.  1 or 2 at a time.

Cook on a hot cast iron griddle or pan for about 1 minute on each side.

 

See the bubbles here.  This is what you are looking for. Then you know your pan is hot enough.

Flip and cook on the other side.  See the little golden marks.  This is GOOD!

 

As you cook them put them in a tortilla warmer or on a plate covered with a towel to keep warm until serving. 

Yummy!