Tortillas

[JNG]

I guess this would be in the pass not a topic with this site, but I'm not not on a more then a 1 or 2 forums so this is it. It seems a slew of folks are from the S.W. I love tortillas made from corn meal, so I got me a press and a bag of Quaker Maza mix. Did some reading on the net and was ready to give it a shot. Well, tasted good, but it fell apart when I browned them. I figured that it was too thick and so I fubared the operation. I'll try again, do any of you folks have a great way to make the Bride happy?

Thanks
Joe

[Chuck 100 yd]

NOT ME!! I love to eat em but don`t know beans about makin em.

BUMP !

[rjohns94]

Nope but I'm watching with anticipation of learning something

[2571]

Tortillas cannot be made in OH.

[Mescalero]

[Blaine]

Tortillas cannot be made in OH.

That's fair...Football can't be played in MI

[pneuby]

Good luck! A fresh, or storebought, flour tortilla is all the same to me. The one time I had a fresh CORN torilla, I swore off storebought ever again.

[Rusty]

try looking on youtube for some video instructions.

are you sure you got the right kind of mix? they make a mix for making tamales too. I don't know the difference myself other than I know there are different products.

[Pete44ru]

Since the only Spanish I know is "Adios, Mother*****r", my idea of making a tortilla (successfully, I might add) consists of buying some from a local bogeda, and toasting them on a flat CI griddle atop my gas stove burner.

I usually have one, every-other morning, enwrapping a scrambled egg, onions, etc, topped with salsa - aka: a breakfast burrito.


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[JNG]

Yeah, I guess I'll go to uttube, but I have found that it is hit and miss. I still can not believe that no folks have a clue on making
tortillas. First time in my life I'm number 1.. I will pass info to all when I learn.. Also, If you tasted flour compared to corn, well sir you will be in a treat.

Thanks,

Joe

[wecsoger]

Tortillas cannot be made in OH.

ahhh....yes they can. But I'm originally from KY, stuck up here for awhile so maybe that's that difference.

They fell apart because they were (maybe) too thick but also too dry.

Go here for a really good description on how to "roll your own".

http://www.mexicoinmykitchen.com/2012/1 ... hacer.html

This website is doing the flour ones, but for corn flour masa, it's the same deal.

Go fresh and you're spoiled.

[Grizzly Adams]

Tortillas cannot be made in OH.

They fell apart because they were (maybe) too thick but also too dry.

+1 In addition, corn tortillas really benefit from the use of a tortilla press. Helps get them thin enough....

Wife says you need to use Masa Harina. Not sure where you find that in Ohio, but I have never heard of the Quaker stuff......

Usually 2 cups of Masa Harina and 1 1/4 +/- cups of warm water for your dough.

Came across this recipe by Rick Bayless. Good luck!

http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/view?recipeID=266

[FWiedner]

Since the only Spanish I know is "Adios, Mother*****r", my idea of making a tortilla (successfully, I might add) consists of buying some from a local bogeda, and toasting them on a flat CI griddle atop my gas stove burner.

I usually have one, every-other morning, enwrapping a scrambled egg, onions, etc, topped with salsa - aka: a breakfast burrito.


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I think "Mother*****r" is a German word.

Means the same thing as "Obama" in Kenyan.

[pwl44m]

There used to be a Restaraunt in Matamoras (I think thats the border town to Brownsvile) called the "El Jardin". Two Women stood at a big griddle Patting out corn Tortillas by hand. The Waiter kept You supplied as many as U could eat, with Ur meal of course. They were the Best I have ever eaten Bar None.
Perry

[Blaine]

Mex food where the Mexicans eat....perfect flour or corn tortillas....

http://www.yelp.com/biz/vuelve-a-la-vida-tacoma

[olyinaz]

Yeah, I guess I'll go to uttube, but I have found that it is hit and miss. I still can not believe that no folks have a clue on making
tortillas. First time in my life I'm number 1.. I will pass info to all when I learn.. Also, If you tasted flour compared to corn, well sir you will be in a treat.

Thanks,

Joe

And if you tasted potato instead of corn or flour, you'd be having lefse!

Now THAT is a treat.

Oly

[2571]

[/quote]I think "Mother*****r" is a German word.
Means the same thing as "Obama" in Kenyan. [/quote]

Amazing how folk can force their personal opinions into a post that has nothing to do with politics.

[Grizz]

I think "Mother*****r" is a German word.
Means the same thing as "Obama" in Kenyan. :idea

Amazing how folk can force their personal opinions into a post that has nothing to do with politics.

'specially the self-appointed thread police, or S-ATP

just sayin'

[wecsoger]

I have to check the Rick Bayless link but I've no doubt it's good. Seriously, folks have been turning these out for a couple centuries and baking them on rocks. Much easier to do with modern implements.

In addition, corn tortillas really benefit from the use of a tortilla press. Helps get them thin enough....

I've got my eye on one of these. Trying to figure out how to get it in the house since the wife may shoot me if I drag in another piece of cast iron. Still, it's calling my name.

[Grizz]

nice, is that a cooking press? is the tortilla cooked in it, or just flattened?

[Grizzly Adams]

It's just for smashing the little buggers flat.

[wecsoger]

It's for squishing them out. Works lot better than a rolling pin.

Get a plastic bag, freezer bag or whatever, cut off sides and top, leave bottom as a 'hinge'

Put your corn or flour ball down in between the plastic and the whole assembly inside the press. Squish. Rotate 90 degrees. Squish again. Open bag, peel off. Throw on griddle.

Flip, pull off, enjoy.

[FWiedner]

I think "Mother*****r" is a German word.
Means the same thing as "Obama" in Kenyan.

Amazing how folk can force their personal opinions into a post that has nothing to do with politics.

Any opportunity to enlighten the unwashed.

Like your buddy Rahm (almost) sez: "Can't let a good thread go to waste".



Incidentally, I prefer flour tortillas.

Don't know why, but corn tortillas always taste like soap to me. Must be lye they use on the corn.

[cfplinker]

That is a nice looking press. I've found that you have to get them both flat and thin. The thinner the better. I made a press from pieces of 1x10 lumber based on pictures that I found on the 'net. It works fine but doesn't look near as nice as the one above.

You just flatten them with the press. When I tried to roll them out using either a rolling pin or a piece of dowel they looked like a map of either Texas or California. They never came out round. Starting with a flattened sphere of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap in the press and they come out fairly round. If they are too thick, you can't roll them up after you have fried them on your grill. And we know you have to roll them up for burritos (flour tortillas) or enchiladas (corn tortillas).

[Rusty]

Most of the tortilla presses I see around here are made of aluminum.

[wecsoger]

Aluminum? Heresy! He's a witch! Burn him, burn him!

Same company make's 'em in aluminum too. I don't know for the stresses involved there's a whits bit of difference.

Hadn't thought about rolling my own in wood. Think I'll investigate that.

[Grizz]

most of the tortilla presses I've seen involve two small hands clapping...

[J35]

most of the tortilla presses I've seen involve two small hands clapping...

And one plump thigh, some things are best left to the fairer sex.

-- J

[J35]

have fried them on your grill. And we know you have to roll them up for burritos (flour tortillas) or enchiladas (corn tortillas).

To me the best enchiladas are made flat like pancakes, with the sauce, meat and cheese in layer's between the corn tortilla's and one or two fried egg's on top.

--J

[Grizzly Adams]

most of the tortilla presses I've seen involve two small hands clapping...

And one plump thigh, some things are best left to the fairer sex.

-- J

I thought that was Cuban cigars!? I'm eating in the wrong places.....

[Blaine]

most of the tortilla presses I've seen involve two small hands clapping...

And one plump thigh, some things are best left to the fairer sex.

-- J

I thought that was Cuban cigars!? I'm eating in the wrong places.....

This one lady in El Paso pressed them in her armpits....tasted good, if you watched out for hairs....

[FWiedner]

most of the tortilla presses I've seen involve two small hands clapping...

And one plump thigh, some things are best left to the fairer sex.

-- J

I thought that was Cuban cigars!? I'm eating in the wrong places.....

This one lady in El Paso pressed them in her armpits....tasted good, if you watched out for hairs....

I heard of a place in Denver that made patties for their burgers using the same method.

Turned out that the Public Health inspectors were not quite as amused as the kitchen staff was.

[Rusty]

I heard the burgers weren't half as bad as the donuts.

[GSRASHER]

Incidentally, I prefer flour tortillas.

Don't know why, but corn tortillas always taste like soap to me. Must be lye they use on the corn.

That's because you have been using that lye soap again. Lye is used to soak the corn to remove the outer part
of the kernal.

[J35]

Back in the early 80's, I contracted to do the finish work on a 120 houses scattered all across the reservations in S AZ, there would be 6 or 7 houses in one little village and a few more at another and so on.

Me and my crew would camp out at ea village until the work was done and move on to the next, come home Sat. night and head back out Mon. morning.

These ladies in the villages would make it a social occasion when they made their tortilla's , they would have a large piece of sheet steel propped up on rocks with mesquite wood burning under it and ea one would have a plate or pan with the dough on it, they would pinch off a small piece of dough work it in there hands a little then plop down onto there thigh and then peel it off and onto the hot steel.

Another interesting thing was ea village would have a bootlegger, only qt bottles of beer.

Have fun--J