Homemade tortillas

[vraiblonde]

After being spoiled in Texas by Texicans and their grocery products, I find myself now without fresh raw flour tortillas. Not even the Mexican market has them (because of course flour tortillas aren't a Mexican thing). So I got a press and am trying to make my own, which I have been assured is a snap but those people are clearly liars.

I want them to be light and bubbly when cooking. Yesterday's batch was a disaster that I don't want to talk about, and today's batch are somewhat biscuity - damn good and could be a thing on their own, but not what I was going for.

Flour tortillas have 5 ingredients:
flour
salt
baking powder
lard
warm water

So it's obviously the ratio or the way I'm handling them. The biscuit texture means I had too much lard, and I did add enough to make a crumbly mixture before I stirred in the water. After that I got nothin'. The tortillas I got at HEB in TX would bubble on the upside like pancakes before you flip them and be all light and airy but the raw tortilla wasn't a batter, it was definitely a dough.

Any homesick Texans want to enlighten me? I can live with biscuitillas but would rather be able to make proper tortillas.

 

[RoseRed]

Have you looked for any YouTube videos?

 

[PJay]

Maybe this will be helpful.... hope..

Flour tortillas: an end to my quest

White bread was forbidden in my household as a child. We only ate whole-grain bread, the coarser, tougher and browner the better. I hated it. Especially since all the other kids brought their sandwiches to

www.homesicktexan.com

 

[vraiblonde]

Maybe this will be helpful.... hope..

Flour tortillas: an end to my quest

White bread was forbidden in my household as a child. We only ate whole-grain bread, the coarser, tougher and browner the better. I hated it. Especially since all the other kids brought their sandwiches to

www.homesicktexan.com

Good grief, I even said the words "homesick Texan" and didn't think to look on her website. Thanks!

 

[jrt_ms1995]

Let us know how they turn out next. I'd much rather have a tortilla than bread, but most don't seem to have any NaCl whatsoever.

 

[Clem72]

After being spoiled in Texas by Texicans and their grocery products, I find myself now without fresh raw flour tortillas. Not even the Mexican market has them (because of course flour tortillas aren't a Mexican thing).

Don't know who told you that. Flour tortillas were invented in northern Mexico (where they can actually grow wheat), and are the most popular types in many northern Mexican states. Maybe your Mexican market is actually a Central or South American market?

 

[vraiblonde]

Don't know who told you that. Flour tortillas were invented in northern Mexico (where they can actually grow wheat), and are the most popular types in many northern Mexican states. Maybe your Mexican market is actually a Central or South American market?

Whatever. Don't care. I just want to make flour tortillas like the ones Mi Casa has at the HEBs in Texas.