flour tortillas

[eacmorris]

where did flour tortillas come from

[Clanad]

Obviously quite ancient... this from Mitos y arte  huicoles

...The Mother of Maize changed her dove appearance to a human one; She introduced to the young man her 5 daughters, who symbolize the five maize sacred colors: white, red, yellow, spotted and blue. As the young man was hungry The Mother of Maize gave him a kettle filled with tortillas and a pot filled with atole; he didn't belive that those could satiate his hunger, but the tortillas and atole were renewed magicaly, in a way that he couldn't finish them. The Mother of Maize asked him to choose one of her daughters and he took the Girl of Blue Maize, the most beauty and sacred of them all...

Flour tortillas, tortillas de Masa, were introduced in Mexico and Central America sometime in the 1500's when the Spaniards brought wheat to the New World...