4 cup flour
2 tbsp lard
1/2 cup warm milk
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Directions
Mix all dry ingredients and sift. Mix in lard. Add milk gradually.
Knead til smooth. Roll in pieces. roll out flat very thin. Cook on
griddle until lightly spotted.
Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Bread; Breads; Mexican
The History of Recipes
Experts have traced the existence of recipes back into the distant past, certainly as far into history as the early Egyptians, and maybe further still. In practice though, mostly, these old cookbooks were just primitive pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians are a few tablets in Sumerian describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made people feel exhilarated and blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there are a couple of interesting recipe books dating from the 14th Century - one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are unconnected to the indian food that appears on menues today, but instead descriptions of the types of food eaten by the upper classes of that time. Over the following few hundred years, the powerful families of Europe competed with each other to lay on the best banquets, and consequentially the best cooks and their recipes were greatly in demand. However, it was during the nineteenth century that fine cookery and recipe publications became popular. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the US, spent years to collating, testing, and recording the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. By the arrival of the 20th century, recipe publications were in high demand, due to better eduction, more leisure time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Alicia's Flour Tortilla recipe.
