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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We have the small rolling pin type thingy that really looks like a large
dowl.  It is used for flour tortillas.  However, most of the women I knew
simply used their hands for the flour tortillas except those living in the
city.

The folks who wrote the thing about *corn* tortillas talked about cooking
and said you could use a press or a cast iron pan.  I clarified that the
press is used to "make" the tortillas, NOT cook them.

And all the folks I knew had a wood press for corn tortillas.  I don't know
what type wood they were made of, guess I should have asked but it was
really hard wood!

Lynda
----- 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.
>
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