Recipe - Fortune Cookies

White Paper
One half cup Gold Medal allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1 ds Salt
1 teaspoon Almond extract
2 Egg whites
One fourth cup Vegetable oil

from: hyler@ast.saic.com (buffy hyler)

Cut paper into about 24 strips, 3 inches long and One half inch wide. Write a
different fortune on each strip. Heat oven to 300 degrees F. Generously
grease cookie sheet. Mix flour, sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add almond
extract, egg whites and vegetable oil; beat until smooth. Bake only 4
cookies at a time. (Cool cookie sheet after each baking and grease
generously each time.) For each cookie, spoon 1 heaping teaspoonful batter
onto cookie sheet; spread into 3 One half inch circle with back of spoon. Bake
about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Working quickly, remove 1 cookie at
a time with wide spatula, flip into protected hand. (Leave remaining
cookies in oven.) Place paper fortune on center of cookie and fold cookie
in half. Holding points of folded cookie with both hands, place center of
fold over edge of bowl and pull points downward to make a crease across
center. Place cookie in ungreased muffin cup so it will hold its shape
while cooling. If cookie cools before it is shaped, heat in oven about 1
minute. Store in tightly covered container. About 2 dozen cookies.

Personal Note: These cookies *will* want to stick to the cookie sheet!!!
Definately grease extra, or, if you have access to such, use a teflon sheet
on top of the cookie sheet. This latter method worked perfectly for me. I
got the teflon sheet through the King's Baker Catalog. It looks like a very
thick wax paper sheet and can be rolled up when not in use. Posted to EATL
Digest 19 Mar 97 by Teasel teasel@JUNO.COM on Mar 19, 1997