Great as a team effort. Found getting 'team' to come up with 48 good fortunes a real challange. Cotton gloves a must, as cookies hot to the touch and must be handled quickly. Good Fortune!!
Ingredients
- Besides regular kitchen equipment to make fortune cookies you'll need pencil, paper, scissors and lightweight cotton gloves; for the mixing and the cooling, you'll want a large mixing bowl and spoons, a cookie sheet, an egg carton or muffin pan and a spatula.
- Cut 48 strips of paper about half an inch wide and three inches long. Write a fortune on each strip. Then read the recipe ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
- Measure the ingredients:
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 3 egg whites
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp. instant tea powder
- 2 Tbls. water
Directions
Melt the butter and separate the eggs. Put the egg whites, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix them together. Stir in vanilla, flour, tea, water and melted butter, one ingredient at a time. Chill this batter at least 30 minutes. While it chills, heat the oven to 350*F.
Grease the cookie sheet. Drop a rounded teaspoon of chilled batter onto the cookie sheet and spread it with the back of the spoon until it makes a thin circle three inches across. Spread another circle of batter on the pan in the same way.
Put only two cookies on the sheet---you won't have time to fold more than that. Put the cookies into the oven and bake them three to five minutes, or until the edges turn brown. To fold them follow the next four steps.
1. Put on your cotton gloves. Using a spatula, slide one cookie off the cookie sheet. Put the cookie on a clean counter top.
2. Lay a fortune across the center of the cookie. Lift one edge of the cookie and fold it so the cookie becomes a semicircle. WORK QUICKLY!
3. Hold the cookie on the ends. Place the middle of the folded edge over the rim of the egg carton and bend the sides down.
4. Put the folded cookie carefully into one of the holes in the egg carton to cool. Then go back and fold the second cookie. Continue until 48 fortune cookies are made.
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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: 1979 National Geographic WORLD
Submitted By: Eileen Werth
crzylegs@erols.com
Fortune Cookies