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Fortune Cookies
These cookies are made on a griddle and the success lies in the baking. Just make sure the griddle is heavy. Do not try to make these cookies in a skillet. It doesn’t work well because of it’s high sides; when you turn the cookies, you need plenty of space.
Use ordinary typing paper to write the fortunes. Write or type the fortunes before you bake the cookies because each prophecy must be inserted in the cookie the moment it comes from the griddle.
1 large egg
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
Fortunes written on paper strips
Preheat griddle, about 350 F
Beat the egg slightly.
Gradually add sugar and beat until very thick and ivory-colored.
Fold in the oil.
Add the water and a little bit of egg to the cornstarch, and stir to mix smooth
Gently beat in the egg mixture.
Drop a heaping tablespoonful of batter onto the griddle, then spread with a small spatula into a cookie about 4 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick; bake as many at one time as griddle will hold.
Because batter seems to separate stir lightly to blend before dropping each cookie.
Bake turning with a wide, flexible spatula to brown underside, about 5 minutes, or until cookies are a light golden color with edges slightly browned and they lift easily from the griddle. (Cookies will be hard to get off griddle if they are not baked enough.)
Remove one cookie at a time; place fortune paper in center of cookie and fold cookie in half twice, pinching edges together. Hang on the lip of a bowl, or vase or whatever for a couple of minutes.
Wipe crumbs from griddle with paper towel between batches.
Makes 1 to 1 1/2 dozen.
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