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Recipe Sharing

This is the spot we have chosen to highlight recipes shared by our readers. Rather than post my own here, I'll randomly choose a recipe from the ones we receive here at HBHW. I hope you'll give this recipe a try.

Corn Tortillas – Tortillas de Maiz

This recipe is very frugal as it only uses three ingredients – water, corn flour, and baking powder. A batch will last you a few days to a week, and these tortillas are a great healthy and cheap substitute to bread.

Here’s the recipe:

Here is my recipe for THE perfect tortilla. This recipe makes about 20-30 tortillas and can be doubled or halved if you desire to make more or less. Although tortillas are usually eaten with other food, such as meat, rice, or vegetables, they are just as good eaten by themselves as well!

Ingredients:

-3 cups of Instant Corn Flour treated with lime, (this flour is known in Spanish as “harina de maiz”. I use the “Masa Brosa” brand)
-5 cups of lukewarm tap water (agua tibia)
-1 tsp. of baking powder

Directions:

-In a large bowl, combine 3 cups of corn flour with baking soda and mix together.
-Add 4 1/2 cups of water and mix together with your hands until combined.
-Add final 1/2 cup of water slowly, mixing thoroughly with hands until fully incorporated.
-Pre-heat three or more nonstick skillets on high/medium high.
-Begin to form medium sized balls out of the masa with your hands.
-Place each ball of masa dough between two plastic baggies and flatten the balls by pressing down with a plate.
-Remove flattened dough from baggies and place onto hot skillet.
-Repeat process until all dough balls have been cooked – about 1-2 minutes on each side.
-Place cooked tortillas on metal wrack to cool.

Recipes

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Frugal Tips

Our favorite frugal tips come from you, our readers. If you have a tip to share, please do so by clicking on this link: http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/submit-a-frugal-tip and fill out the submit a frugal tip form. I'll be glad to add your tip to the site and share it in an upcoming edition of the newsletter. Here are a few frugal tips we would like to share with you now:

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I’m Looking For Requests

This section is all about you. If you are looking for a particular recipe or a tip on how to do something, submit it here and I will post it on the website for you and highlight your request here in the newsletter. Input from HBHW readers will hopefully result in an answer or suggestion for your request. So take a moment to post your questions by clicking this link. Of course if you have a tip or idea for any question posted in this section feel free to leave a comment under the appropriate post. You can go directly to this section and browse through all the recent submissions and replies by clicking on "I'm Looking for" here, and start looking through them.

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Inspirational Story

A New Year
~ William Arthur Ward ~

Another fresh new year is here;
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear;
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest;
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs;
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!

That’s it for this edition of the Hillbilly Housewife Newsletter. I hope you’ve had as much fun reading it as I had creating it for you. I also hope that you have found the information helpful and useful. And by all means feel free to forward the newsletter to family and friends or even better, encourage them to subscribe to it.

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Warm Wishes,

Susanne - The Hillbilly Housewife