I'm always at certain
friends on New Year's Eve and I always like to get a small present
with me for that circumstance. Now I always get a bunch of glow
lights and the year before last and the year before that I had made
caramelised nuts. Years before that I once thought I could make
fortune cookies myself. Judging from the pure recipe, they're
relatively easy to make. My sister, who is more experienced with
baking, helped me dividing egg white and yolk as well as getting the
cookies on the sheets and removing them. The really difficult part
with that is that you have to work fast, because the dough on the one
hand has to be baked to a certain degree to be able to shape the
circles you put on the sheet to their typical fortune cookie shape
and of course you've got to put the slip of paper in as well. On the
other hand the fresh cookies, when they come right out of the oven
are of course very hot and if you wait for too long, they get hard
and you can't quite shape them anymore.
I don't remember anymore
which recipe I actually had used, but the following one from
allrecipes.com is an example of how it's typically done. I spare me
copying the recipe here and just give you the link instead:
I'd suggest looking up the
fortunes ahead of everything else and either writing them by hand or
on your computer and printing and cutting them out. I forgot which
fortunes I used. I'm certain there are many pages with fortunes for
fortune cookies to be found with your preferred search engines. Just
look for fortunes that you like best.
I still have a small note
on my cookies though: of course I wanted to make a test run (or
rather test baking) before my visit with the friends. So I made a few
cookies just for us as family, but already with the fortunes in the
cookies. So I had a small bowl with cookies sitting in the
living-room and my father, who didn't know about the cookies, saw
them and put one whole one as it was in his mouth. I cried out in
horror that there was a slip of paper in! He fumbled with his finger
to get the paper out of his mouth and threw it in the waste without a
further glance on the paper. After that experience I told the friends
and everyone, who grabbed one of the cookies on New Year's Eve, that
they have a slip of paper in them. Contrary to my father, the friends
took it for granted and ate the cookie accordingly with caution. ;-)
Until next blog,
sarah
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