crm@rti.UUCP (04/18/84)
What's this about "steaming" tortillas anyway? Back in Colorado we normally sort of toast them/fry them in a little oil on a hot griddle. Just long enough for them to get a little brown and hot enough to melt the butter you are undoubtedly about to spread onto them. By the way, no-one has mentioned sopapillias (I think that's spelled correctly, but my Spanish is limited (!))... one thing I miss in the East is a decent sopapillia. Our Mexican housekeeper (who later made a big name for herself running a really good Mexican restaurant in Trinidad) would make them with normal whiteflour yeast-bread dough. However, she would roll the dough *very very thin*, then cut it into rectangles about the size of one hand. To make it as thin as necessary, you would probably want to get a high-gluten flour, like Hungarian flour. Having done so, drop these little rectangles into hot oil in a deep-fryer or frying pan. They should INSTANTLY puff up into little pillow shapes, and will shortly afterwards be golden-brown. Take them out, drain on paper towel, eat (covered with honey or sugar and cinnamon is good.)
peters@cubsvax.UUCP (04/19/84)
La Paloma in Newark, OH makes great sopapillas... either sweet, as
you described them, or else filled with things like beans or ground beef,
spiced, and topped with sour cream.
Even though they were fried, they weren't the least bit greasy. Anyone
know how they did that?
Also, anyone know anyplace in NYC where sopapillas are to be had?
{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters Peter S. Shenkin
Dept of Biol. Sci.; Columbia Univ.; New York, N. Y. 10027; 212-280-5517
"In accordance with the recent proclivity for clever mottos, this is mine."kjg@zeppo.UUCP (04/19/84)
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zeppo!kjg Apr 19 07:57:00 1984
Sources of sopapillas (sp?) in NY/NJ area:
1) El Torito near Willowbrook
2) Chi Chi's - near Woodbridge or in E. Brunswick
3) In city: I haven't been to any places in New York,
but Carumba (one uptown and in wall st. area) probably
have them
Aside: I believe that the item described that is filled with
meat or other fillings is an empanada...
Kevin J Glass
harpo!kjg; whuxh!harpo!kjg
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, NJjmike@uokvax.UUCP (04/25/84)
#R:rti:-115500:uokvax:7200012:000:230 uokvax!jmike Apr 25 09:21:00 1984 Chi-Chi's covers there soapapillas (however spelled) with so much sugar that you almost get sick looking at them. The only kind i've ever enjoyed were sugarless and i usually added a *small* amount of honey to them. mike