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A historical recipe from One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906).

A historical recipe

One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Project Gutenberg eBook #68235.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #68235 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68235). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Mexico. Associated with Mexico by the book is about Mexican cookery (Cooking, Mexican); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

  • three cupfuls of sifted flour
  • a tablespoonful of lard

Method

  1. Take three cupfuls of sifted flour, a tablespoonful of lard, a level teaspoonful of salt and enough water to make it like pastry dough.
  2. Roll very thin and cut the size of a dessert plate.
  3. Have ready in a large frying-pan some hot lard, enough to float the tortillas, but not so hot as to brown them.
  4. Put in the tortillas, one at a time, and when they begin to blister they are done.
  5. This quantity will make about two dozen.