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    ROD RECIPES 4/14/2007 Happy Luck Fortune


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    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 RECIPES 4/14/2007 Happy Luck Fortune Cookies
    It's...
    Fortune Cookie Day


    Happy Luck Fortune Cookies

    Prepare fortunes by writing messages
    on about 20 strips of paper.

    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.


    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.

 

 

 


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