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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Lynda wrote:

> Just a note, someone is confused on the corn tortilla part.  You use the
> press to make the tortilla and then "cook" them on a flat iron or in a cast
> iron skillet.  We always cooked them on those cast iron burner covers that
> old stoves had on them.  The stoves that have cast iron griddle in the
> middle work good to.
>
> Lynda, who learned to make tortillas from a neighbor and relearned when she
> lived in Baja
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
>  
tvoivozhd---you can use a tortilla press, but it is entirely 
superflous---all the Mexicans and Indians I know make tortillas and 
chapati's by making doughballs with their hands, and flattening them 
either by hand or with a couple of small-diameter wood rollers, a 
rolling pin does fine too.  Cook them on any hot surface, iron skillet, 
hot quarry tile, side of a Tandoori oven.