FORTUNE COOKIE: Known as a staple of American Chinese restaurant meals,
the fortune cookie, strangely enough, is actually Japanese in origin. Confections folded around slips of paper containing predictions of
personal blessings were first made in Kyoto in the 19th century. They
may have been introduced to America around the turn of the 19th century
at San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden, though a Japanese restaurant
owner in L.A. and the Chinese founder of the city's Hong Kong Noodle
Company also claim to have imported the idea. When Japanese-Americans
lost their businesses during World War II, Chinese bakers took over
making the confections, tweaking the recipe. In 1973, a Chinese-American graduate of the University of California invented a machine to fold them automatically, and the cookies' fortunes were assured.

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Title: Fortune Cookies **** (Kevin's Favorite)
Categories: Oriental, Cookies, Snacks
Yield: 12 Servings

1/3 c Cake flour
1/3 c Granulated sugar
2 lg Egg whites
2 tb Confectioners' sugar
2 tb Oil
1 tb Butter; softened
1 ts Pure vanilla extract
pn Salt

Recipe by: Eating Well

Set oven @ 300ºF/150ºC. Very lightly oil 2 nonstick
baking sheets or lightly coat them with nonstick cooking
spray.

In a food processor, combine all of the ingredients and
process until smooth.

Drop 6 scant tablespoonfuls of the butter on a prepared
baking sheet, placing well apart from each other on the
sheet. (Set the remaining ingredients on the side.) With
a small spatula or the back of a spoon, spread each
spoonful into a 3 1/2" circle. Bake until quite golden,
10-15 mins.

Have a small bowl and a muffin tin ready. Remove the
baking sheet from the oven. With a thin spatula,
carefully release the cookies but leave them on the
baking sheet. Return the sheet of cookies to the oven
to soften for 1 minute. Open the oven door but leave
the cookies inside to remain pliable in the warmth of
the oven.

Remove 1 cookie at a time from the oven. Lay a fortune
in the center of a cookie and roll into a tube,
overlapping the edges slightly. Holding the ends, fold
the cookie in half down over the rim of the bowl to
form the traditional fortune cookie shape.

Immediately transfer the cookie to the muffin tin to
keep it from opening as it cools. Repeat with the
remaining cookies.

Spread and bake the remaining batter, and form cookies
as directed above.

Makes 12 fortune cookies.

From: http://www.recipesource.com

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