fortune cookies
categories: Cookies | International  

Prepared: 2009-01-24

ingredients:

• 1 egg white
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup white sugar
  

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Butter a cookie sheet.
• Write fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide.
• Generously grease 2 cookie sheets.
• Mix the egg white and vanilla until foamy but not stiff.
• Sift the flour, salt, and sugar and blend into the egg white mixture.
• Place teaspoonfuls of the batter at least 4 inches apart on one of the prepared cookie sheets.
• Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 3 inches in diameter.
• Be careful to make batter as round and even as possible.
• Do not make too many, because the cookie have to be really hot to form them and once they cool it is too late.
• Start with 2 or 3 to a sheet and see how many you can do.
• Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie has turned a golden color 1/2 inch wide around the outer edge of the circle.
• The center will remain pale.
• While one sheet is baking, prepare the other.
• Remove from oven and quickly move cookie with a wide spatula and place upside down on a wooden board.
• Quickly place the fortune on the cookie, close to the middle and fold the cookie in half.
• Place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside.
• Place folded cookies into the cups of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold their shape until firm.