Categories: Appetizers, Hamburger, Mexican 
      Yield: 18 flaquitos 
  
      1 sm Onion; grated 
      1 ts Cooking oil 
    1/2 lb Ground beef, lean 
      1 ts Salt 
      1 ts Cumin 
      1    Garlic clove; minced 
    1/4 ts Hot sauce; to 1/2 ts. 
     18    Tortillas; fresh 
      2 c  Cheese; shredded 
           Shortening; hot 
  
  Cook onion in cooking oil in heavy skillet. When onion is wilted, add meat 
  and cook until mixture turns white.  Add salt, cumin, garlic, and hot 
  sauce; cook about 5 minutes to allow flavors to blend. 
   
  Put 2 or more tablespoons meat mixture on one edge of tortilla; add 2 to 3 
  tablespoons shredded cheese.  Roll carefully; fasten edges with a 
  toothpick. 
   
  Place flaquitos in a wire basket; plunge into hot shortening and cook until 
  crips.  Do not overcook. 
   
  SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, June, 1974. Typed for you by Nancy 
  Coleman.