AmyF my sisters tamale dough

[Guest guest]

This is my sisters tamale dough recipe and it's in the

Mexican recipe file. She puts cheese and a hunk of

roasted jalapeno inside the tamale for me since I

don't eat meat. You have to ask the group how to put

them together and steam them. I only eat them, I

don't cook that good to try tamales yet. She used to

use lard but I got her to stop that.

Paul

 

 

 

 

Tamale Masa

 

3/4 cup vegetable shortening

6 cups masa harina

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

little less than 2 teaspoons salt

water or vegetable broth in a can or the kind you

make

 

In a bowl stir the masa harina, baking powder and

salt.

In another bowl beat the shortening for 1 or 2

minutes to make it fluffed up.

Now add a little masa mixture to the shortening and

beat and then some broth

and beat and then keep doing this until all the masa

harina is added. Keep beating an add broth until you

get a thick creamy paste.

Now it will be ready to spread on corn husks. You

spread 2 tablespoons.