Sopapillas

[Ironhorse]

I love Sopapillas, warm, dusted with sugar and cinnamon and then drizzled with honey! I used to love eating them for dessert after dinner at On the Border. This recipe was the closest I found to feed my vice for those Sopapillas. Remember, eat em warm!

1 3/4 cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp solid vegetable shortening (use shortening, not lard!)
2/3 cup cold water
1 cup corn or canola oil (canola is best)
honey and/or cinnamon sugar to taste


Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut shortening in using a pastry blender (or two knives if you don't have a pastry blender) until it forms a coarse mixture. Gradually add cold water. Mix together just enough to hold together as you would if making a pie crust. Turn out on a lightly floured surface. Knead gently until smooth. Cover and let dough sit for five minutes. Roll into a rectangle about 12" x 15". Dough will be very thin.

Cut into rectangles about 2" x 3" in size. Heat oil until a drop of water sizzles when dropped into it in large skillet. Drop a few sopapillas at a time into the oil. Turn them over three to four times to make them puff up evenly, then fry for two to three minutes on each side, until they are golden brown and puffed up like small pillows. Dust with cinnamon sugar and/or pour small amount of honey over the sopapillas.
Serve hot. Makes about 20.

*Make sure your oil is hot or the sopapillas will absorb a great deal of oil and be soggy and yucky.

[Summer]

Ironhorse, I cannot keep up with your "enticing" recipes! LOL I made your potato, ham, spinach soup in the crockpot last weekend. Excellent! I couldn't believe it was so easy. I am not the greatest cook and am timid about trying stuff. I am going to have to store your recipes in a special file on my documents so I can try them out whenever I have time. Bon Appetit!

[Ironhorse]

Summer, long ago I quit being afraid to try recipes, hmmmmm, could be why I've collected so many over the last 40 some years, LOL! I've only had two that came out really terrible, both involved curry and I came to the conclusion I just don't care for curry. I love to cook, love to experiment, love to try to make a recipe "my own" by tweaking it, adding stuff to it, etc. I guess where some people craft, quilt, work with wood, I craft food, LOL (and it shows on my hips, etc.) Some people don't think I've tried the recipes I post, but I try them all, or will say that I haven't tried it, but it looks good and I want to try it. And if it's an old favorite, I'll say that too. I love my old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook (you know, from before they put out the one with "healthy" recipes, LOL), and it was my bible so to speak when I was married. At one time I probably had 300 cookbooks, but when the kids moved out, I sold or gave away most of them. I have a "larger than normal" recipe file LOL, filled with recipes. I used to be a checkout cookbook display junkie, where you buy those little cookbooks by the checkout stand in the grocery store, but I finally started telling myself NO! Cooking isn't as hard as some think, and a lot of "mistakes" turn out to be good mistakes. If I mess something up, I just learn from it. I stay away from the "gourmet" cooking for the most part, most is not to my taste. I favor the home cooking type stuff. Glad you tried the one recipe and enjoyed it, it's one of my favorites.