My Local Snack

This month my family and I are trying to eat local. To eat local is to try to eat foods that are grown in our watershed. For us this includes Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and some of Pennsylvania.

Today, we cooked some tortillas. We used whole wheat pastry flour from a mill in Pennsylvania. We also used salt, baking soda, oil, and water.

I put all the ingredients in a bowl and mixed them up with my fingers. It was very sticky and stuck to my hands. I made the dough into a ball and let it sit for 15 minutes. Then we took it out and divided the ball into eight pie-shaped pieces. I rolled out seven pieces with a rolling pin. I took the eighth one and tore it in half. I flattened it with my hands and used a cookie cutter and cut a round circle. I took the second piece and did the same thing. I took all the left over pieces and made a third small tortilla.

Then we took all the tortillas to the stove. We heated a cast-iron skillet without oil. I took a tortilla and dropped it in the pan and waited 40 seconds. After forty seconds I used a spatula and flipped it over and waited another 40 seconds. Then I took the spatula and lifted the tortilla out of the pan and flipped it onto a plate. I did this for the seven big tortillas. Then I put the three small tortillas in the pan and cooked them.


When I was done, I took the three mini tortillas and some local wineberry jelly (the sweetest jelly I've ever tasted) and made a triple layer sandwich. It was so good!