Pancakes

I haven't been writing on The Home Skooled much lately, cause I've been doing a lot of writing for actual skool work. Kinda ironic ain't it, especially that I've been writing on politicks. Your saying "excuses, excuses, excuses" and I'm like "yeah, if I do it in real life people will actually tell me to my face to quit whining, so I'll just do it on my blog." Anywho, something else I've been doing a lot lately has been thinking about food, maybe it has to do with not eating as much of it as I'd like to (there are downsides to being a cyclist). So I've been thinking about it so much I think I'll write about it. Today I'm gonna review my sister's home made tortilla recipe, when made by her and by me.

Made by her: I've always thought flour tortillas were pretty good, especially with a little (okay I mean a lot) of cinnamon, sugar, and butter on them. But these tortillas are too good to make tacos with. She has to make about thirty of them in order to have enough to use for tacos, cause I eat the first ten, and my dad eats the second ten, and then my ma and sister eat the next five, and we only have five left for tacos. Needless to say these tortillas are delicious. Best fresh out of the frying pan, they have a warm, soft flavor accented by a hint of butter (how's that for poetic). It's a light flavor, unlike a corn tortilla, so you don't want to ruin it with bold salsa. However these things really should be larger, cause I eat them in three bites.

Made by him: "Um, why are these things turning black?"
                     
                      "I put it on medium low just like you said."

                      "No, I put it on the U in medium, not the O in low.
                       What sorta crazy person would do that?"

                      "ouch, Ouch, OUCH, UUUNCCLEE!"

                      "I'll put on the O in low, now why is it thick like
                       a pancake?"

This was after I got myself completely tangled up in dough. Until you start to bake, you don't appreciate the skill it takes to keep dough from eating you alive like a scene from a horror film. I also just about broke the tortilla press. Seriously, why do they make a press, which can't even really press something flat? And then the fire alarm went off, which isn't anything to really worry about, except that my sister keeps claiming that I got something on fire. There's a major difference between a little smoke and fire. I don't care what the fireman said in that movie, if there's smoke that don't mean there's fire. Anyway to actually review it, they were like pancakes, except not fluffy. And you had to do flat bread tacos, cause for some reason they wouldn't bend like a pancake either. So I think I'll go back to making cookies out of the freezer...

Here's the recipe, which isn't to hard to make...as long as you like flat bread.

4 cups of WHITE flour (I don't care how many years it'll add to my life, tortillas were meant to be white)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of shortening (tortillas aren't good for future basketball players)
1 and 1/2 cups of warm water

...That's where the recipe card ends, so after this it's from my memory (contrary to my sister's opinion I do have one) so either you can do what I say or google how to do it...

You mix up the dry ingredients. Then you cut in the shortening with a fork or that cutter thing. The you mix in the water slowly. Get a frying pan on the stove and heat it to medium-low (experiment to find just the right temperature to brown them correctly). Divide up the dough into little balls, which you then press into the tortilla shape, with a small rolling pin or tortilla press. Make sure these things are really thin, otherwise you get pancakes. Then toss them in the pan with no oil or anything and cook 'em till they look done.