ROD 4/14/2006 Fortune Cookie Day Happy Luck Fortune Cookies
Source of Recipe
Marla
Recipe Introduction
Fortune cookies, like chop suey, are a U.S. invention. They come from Los Angeles
where a baker named David Jung started making cookies with thin slips of paper inside
sometime around 1920. Jung founded the Hong Kong Noodle Company, which produced
more than 3,000 cookies an hour during the 1920s.
List of Ingredients
ROD 4/14/2006 Fortune Cookie Day Happy Luck Fortune Cookies
Happy Luck Fortune Cookies
Prepare fortunes by writing messages
on about 20 strips of paper.
Preheat the oven to 300F.
8 oz . flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
4 ounces sugar
1/2 teaspoons salt
2 egg whites
4 ounces vegetable oil
1 teaspoon water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Recipe
In a large bowl, Sift together the flour, cornstarch, sugar, and salt. Stir in the
oil, egg whites, water, and vanilla. On a well-greased baking sheet, roll a very
thin 4-inch circle of dough and bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
Remove one cookie at a time from the oven with a wide spatula; working quickly follow
these four steps:
1. Flip cookie onto cotton gloved hand.
2. Hold fortune in center of pliable cookie while folding cookie in half.
3. Grasp ends of cookie and draw gently down over edge of muffin pan to crease at
center of cookie.
4. Fit cookie in muffin pan (points down) to hold shape as it cools. If cookie hardens
too quickly, put it back in the oven for about 1 minute.
Store in airtight container
TIPS:
-- Make only two or three cookies at a time, because the cookies become stiff very
quickly and when cooled are too brittle to bend into their familiar shape.
-- To form into the crescent shape, have a thin-edged bowl or pan on hand, along
with a muffin pan.
-- To handle the hot cookies, wear white, cotton gloves.
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