In response to Sam's post on the Pop Tarts thread, here's the flour tortilla recipe we've used.
1. We use shortening, not lard.
2. Take a little oil and put it on a paper towel and rub a fine layer on the pan once in a while.
3. Adjust the temperature of your frying pan so that the dough doesn't scorch right after about the fifth one.
4. Use a rolling pin to roll out the tortilla balls. They'll be irregular shaped, but that's ok. They cook in about 30 seconds total, both sides. I use a big spatula to press them into the pan.
5. When we make these they turn out sort of thick, like the ones in this picture (but not as perfectly round). They're soft and bendable when they're warm.
6. If you want really flat ones, you need a tortilla press.
Makes me want to go home and make some right now.
Great!! I'm going to try this! :-) I guess I'm hungry....again.
ReplyDeleteWe'll try this one at home. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI can say, now, that I've made these and they're good.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about your pop tart post. As you know I preferred to compare Sunday morning worship to something other than a food that has no food value (except quick energy). I realize that church services - alone - without getting into the word and communing with God during the week can seem like that.
There are a lot of anemic attenders who sit in churches every Sunday...many unbelievers -who don't recognize that they are. Some people go for social reasons - missing the whole point. They're like blind gold miners who don't know when the real thing is right there within reach.
I like to take the food from Sunday morning with me and chew on it later. But I know we need more than just a once a week visit with God. It needs to be daily.
Truth is - I don't like pop tarts so that made it hard for me to see the analogy. :- ) But I see your point.
Well, when there are pop tarts in the cupboard, I don't have a lot of resistance. Only regret, after choking down the second one.
ReplyDelete"Quick energy" is almost a perfect way to describe church, as I see it. It's a snack, at best. There is so much of the kingdom going on outside the walls of churches that I can hardly believe it.
But really, my point was that all the complexity that goes into a church service doesn't compare with the wholesome nourishment that comes from fellowshipping in simplicity with other followers of Christ. More than fellowshipping--actually consuming them and being consumed by them.
That just doesn't happen in sunday school.