Sunday, February 22, 2009

Homemade Flour Tortillas

This recipe is from my sister. It makes awesome tortillas!


10 cups flour
1 cup powdered milk
2 tblspn salt
1 1/2 cup shortening

Combine all dry ingredients and mix well. Cut in shortening until texture is like course cornmeal. Store in an airtight container at room temperature. Mixture will stay good for a month or so.

Mix 4 cups of the mixture and 1 cup lukewarm water. Knead about 50 strokes. Form golf ball size balls then roll thin. Cook on a skillet. This ratio makes about 20 tortillas, it can easily be adjusted to make more or less. Total recipe makes about 50 tortillas!

1 comment:

Leilani Bascom said...

I made these with 5 cups unbleached white flour and 5 cups whole wheat flour, and it works for making wheat tortillas.