Flour Tortillas

While flour tortillas are generally available in supermarkets, fresh homemade tortillas are demonstrably better and worth making Traditionally, the fat used in tortilla making is lard, and although we’ve called for vegetable shortening here, you might try substituting part lard for some of the shortening to get a sense of the authentic flavor. A detailed discussion of tortilla making can be found in Rick Bayless’s wonderful book of several years ago called Authentic Mexican.