2007-01-29 04:45:58 · 5 answers · asked by Lisa B 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Send a Message Fortune Cookies:
These cookies are ideal for bake sales trying to promote a cause; customize the fortune to suit the occasion. Bake three cookies at a time so they'll be soft enough to shape. Tuck your message into the cookie while shaping. If the cookies become too brittle, return them to the oven for a few seconds to soften.
1/2 cup bread flour (about 2 1/3 ounces)
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large egg whites
Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and remaining ingredients in a food processor; process until blended. Scrape batter into a bowl using a rubber spatula; cover and chill 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 400°.
Cover 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Draw 3 (3-inch) circles on paper. Turn paper over; secure with masking tape. Spoon 1 teaspoon batter into center of each of the 3 drawn circles; spread evenly to fill circle. Bake one sheet at 400° for 5 minutes or until the cookies are brown just around the edges. Remove from the oven. Working quickly, loosen edges of cookies with a spatula, and turn over.
Lay the handle of a wooden spoon and a prepared fortune along the center of 1 cookie. Fold cookie over so the edges meet over the spoon handle; press edges together. Remove spoon. Gently pull the ends of the cookie down over the rim of a small bowl (or jar); hold for a few seconds or until set. Repeat procedure with remaining cookies.
Repeat procedure until all of the batter is used. Cool cookies completely; store in an airtight container.
Yield: 18 cookies (serving size: 1 cookie)
2007-01-29 06:21:51 · answer #1 · answered by Girly♥ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Fortune Cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or vague prophecy, usually served with Chinese food as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. Despite the conventional wisdom, they were actually invented in California, USA, not China.
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Fortune cookies are one of those things that entertain and amuse almost everyone. It seems like it would be a lot of fun to custom-make a set of fortune cookies for a party!
If you want to think about it this way, you could call a fortune cookie another "food technology". Bread, cheese, ice cream, etc. are all food technologies -- they use special biological, chemical or mechanical processes during their creation. In the case of a fortune cookie, what you are trying to create is a hard, hollow shell around a sheet of paper, so that nothing sticks to the paper and no grease transfers to it. Cooks create hard shells in several different ways. For example, taco shells are hard. So are dried noodles. So are sugar cones at an ice cream parlor. Of these three, a fortune cookie is most like a sugar cone -- taco shells are deep-fried (therefore greasy) and noodles don't taste very good dry.
You may have noticed that many cookies -- including ginger snaps and chocolate chip cookies -- are soft when they come out of the oven but harden as they cool. The batter of a fortune cookie, made up of flour (and/or cornstarch), sugar, oil, egg, etc., has this property in spades -- it acts something like a heat-sensitive plastic. Fortune cookies start out as flat, 4-inch circles when they are just out of the oven. While still hot the cookie is very flexible, so you place the fortune inside and fold it to the proper "fortune cookie shape" (fold it in half over the fortune, and then draw the tips together over a rod or plate). Once it cools, the cookie becomes hard and crunchy!
2007-01-29 12:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by landhermit 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The cookies start off as a soft round cookie, then a machine puts the fortune in it, another machine pushed the sides in, and then another machine makes the folds that you break.
2007-01-29 12:54:47 · answer #3 · answered by dorothykimball 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/desserts/tp/fortunecookies.htm?r=9I
2007-01-29 12:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by meaty_okra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it really happens in your life if it doesnt then it is not true
2007-01-29 12:54:24 · answer #5 · answered by Destiny W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋