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Tender flour tortilla

Tender flour tortilla Ingredients: leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate salt, table wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched shortening, vegetable, household, composite water, bot...

Tender flour tortilla

Ingredients:
leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
salt, table
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
shortening, vegetable, household, composite
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
Combine dry ingredients first
Put the shortening in and mix with your hands till it turns into a cornmeal texture
slowly add hot water into the dry ingredients and mix with wooden spoon.
Becareful.
Not to burn yourself and when it is cool enough to touch knead it till it becomes a soft ball of dough.
Let it sit in a bowl and cover with a wet towel for 30 minutes .
then roll into golf sized balls then let sit an additional 10 minutes
Now sprinkle flour on your counter and use as much as you need to roll it out.
and flatten the ball with.
Your hands and then start rolling with a rolling pin until you get it pretty thin
In a comal (or just a medium pan) on medium heat put the stretched dough until it bubbles and then turn till it's cooked
Stack tortillas and then store in a plastic bag so they remain soft