Grandma's Sopapillas

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons shortening
• 1 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl sift flour, measure out 4 cups and sift again -- add salt baking powder & sugar.
• 2 cut in shortening.
• 3 add milk, a little bit at a time, until you have a ncie dough ball -- the texture will be a bit crumbly.
• 4 cover dough ball with a wet paper towel and let stand for 1 hour.
• 5 preheat about an inch (more is better) of vegetable or corn oil in a skillet or high walled griddle to 375°f.
• 6 working in batches grab 1/2 cup of dough and roll out as thin as you can get it, about 1/16 of an inch.
• 7 this should make roughly 3 sopapillas, smaller does work out better in this case ;).
• 8 using a pizza cutter or knife cut dough into rectangles (or squares or circles, go crazy people!) lol.
• 9 drop the dough into the hot oil one at a time and briefly submerge to help puff.
• 10 this is also where the amount of oil is important -- there should be enough oil to allow the dough to puff up and still be submerged in oil.
• 11 consistency of oil temperature is also important. that's why its better to work in small batches.
• 12 tapping them against the side of the skillet can also help.
• 13 remember -- love your sopapillas -- its the love that makes them puff!
• 14 this recipe should make approximately 20 sopapillas.