Chinese Fortune Cookies

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
6 tablespoons white sugar
7 tablespoons salad oil
1/3 cup egg whites
3 tablespoons water

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Stir together sifted flour, salt, cornstarch and sugar. Add salad oil and egg whites and stir until blended. Line a cookie sheet with foil. Drop level tablespoon of batter for 6 cookies. Use back of spoon to spread batter evenly into 4-inch circles. Bake for about 20 minutes. 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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A foodie in mississippi Jul 1, 2007
Would make this again.
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A foodie in Hudson, Ohio Nov 19, 2003
Would not make this again.
I do not recommend this recipe!! My daughter's class is studying China. She had to make Chinese Fortune Cookies from scratch. It was a disaster. After 20 minutes at 300, you will have 6 hard brown frizbees. After 10 minutes at 300, you will have soft cookies that crack in half as soon as you fold them. At 5 mintes (can you tell, I tried my best to figure out the right timing?) the cookies still broke when being folded. After wasting my time and raw materials, at 8:45pm at night, I had to go to a Chinese restaurant to buy them. For $3.60, it was a much better value than making from scratch and I actually had 3 dozen, nicely wrapped, perfect cookies when I got back home. Something is wrong with this recipe.

tanya in ohio Jul 21, 2003
Would make this again.
it was really good!

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