Flour Tortillas

Homemade tortillas, please. Just, you know, a little bit decorative for the Fourth of July.

Flour Tortillas

• 4 cups flour
• 1 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup bacon fat, lard, or shortening
• 1 1/2 cups lukewarm water 

Place dry ingredients and shortening into a bowl. Using a pastry cutter, cut the shortening into the dry ingredients until pieces become about the size of peas. Use fingers to help if needed.

Add water until it becomes a soft dough. Knead the dough for a few minutes, place it in a bowl coatied inside with a bit of olive oil, cover with a clean towel, and let it rest for a half an hour.

If you’d like to color your tortillas for a holiday, separate the dough into three balls. Today I’m making tortillas for the 4th of July.

Work red food coloring into one of the balls and blue into another. Break each color into about 4 dough balls.

Roll dough balls into about 10-inch thin tortillas.

Remove excess flour from each tortilla as well as possible.

Cook in a non-stick pan on medium heat just until each side is done – this won’t take long if you rolled them out thinly.

Stack as you cook.

Roll with sandwich fillings or barbecued meat & sauces or just make tacos. I’m feeling so patriotic. And Mexican. All rolled into one.