The Border Table · Source Edition
Crispy Sugar Tortillas
Small sweet griddle rounds with a little yellow cornmeal for texture.
A sweet 2021 flatbread, separate from the site’s savory flour tortillas.
Cook it
A sweet 2021 flatbread, separate from the site’s savory flour tortillas.
- Mix the dry ingredients. Combine the flour, yellow cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and pinch of salt in a bowl.
- Make the dough. Cut in the butter-flavored shortening or margarine until crumbly. Make a well in the center, add the hot water and mix until a soft ball forms. Knead until the dough holds together.
- Portion and rest. Divide into 30 small balls and let them stand for 15 minutes. Roll each ball into a thin, roughly round disk.
- Griddle. Cook on a hot griddle, turning once or twice, until the surfaces take on light golden spots and the small rounds are cooked through. Remove before they become hard or scorched.
Serve it
Serve warm as a small sweet bite. They need no filling in the recorded recipe; if you serve them beside coffee, that is a serving choice, not a change to the dough.
Understand it
What makes this version work
The yellow cornmeal and sugar make these unlike the everyday flour tortillas used for tacos. Roll thinly so each small disk cooks through without a thick center. The source does not specify a griddle temperature or exact seconds per side, so watch the first one and adjust the heat to produce light spots rather than a dark crust. The dough rests only 15 minutes in the archived method.
Know it
The recorded recipe and its place at the table
The owner’s 2021 card calls these Crispy Sugar Tortillas and gives a specific flour-and-cornmeal dough. It does not name a town, bakery, holiday or inventor. This page documents that family preparation as a sweet griddle treat, not as the standard tortilla used for savory Tex-Mex dishes. The broader history of tortillas cannot be inferred from this particular sweet variation.
Sources and method
About this version
The ingredient proportions and core method come from the owner’s 2021 Authentic Tex-Mex Recipes card. The Border Table has clarified the instructions for readers without claiming an undocumented inventor or origin for the exact formula. The external source gives broader culinary context; it does not authenticate the owner’s private recipe.
- Texas State Historical Association, Tex-Mex Foods.
- FoodSafety.gov, Four Steps to Food Safety — refrigeration and safe handling guidance where relevant.
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