Fortune

This is what one does on yet another snow day

Fortunes

If you dream a little dream that is exactly what you will get.

One bird in the hand is better than peanut butter and jelly.

You will never have to worry about Vicks being rubbed on your chest.

Your memory is your guide. Now forget this fortune.

Hot fortune cookies may burn your fingers.

Not to worry, this is not an ice age.

It will rain at the Olympics. It will snow where it is not supposed to snow.

Fortune cookies taste like almonds. Fortunes can be sweet, or not.

You will have many friends and many families.

You will never be carried by four men holding your perch above their heads.

You will pull a plastic swimming pool up a mountain and back again on the snow to bring in groceries.

There will be many snow days and if you are a child you might be happy.

If you are a teacher you might be sad.

You will go over many mountains to reach the other side. The sun will shine as you go.

You will feed a woodpecker all winter who will kill the tree where the

feeder hangs.

You will live in a strange land and you will thrive.

Soon you will hear a ding.

You are an orchid blooming in the desert.

You are a cactus blooming in the Amazon Forest.

Hamburger makes you have the hiccups.

You will have a Lemon Meringue Pie ; it is sweet AND sour.

When you go to Amsterdam you will sleep with the windows open.

You will go to Paris to photograph nursery schools, clotheslines, and little ladies who let pigeons perch on their arms.

You will go to Paris to sing and pass your hat when you are old.

You will see every Vermeer painting in the world.

You will have dishes to wash after making fortune cookies, your kitchen will smell of almonds and sweetness, and you will share these fortunes with all.

You will go to Sweden to buy many pairs of embroidered red shoes.

You will write about this on your blog.

Recipe for fortune cookies

Paper fortunes about 4 or so inches long

This recipe makes about 10 fortune cookies

2 large egg whites,1 tsp. Vanilla extract,1 tsp. Almond Extract,

3 Tbsp. vegetable oil,

¼ tsp. salt, 8 Tbsp. Rice Flour,

2 Tbsp. white wheat flour,

1Tbsp fondant sugar,

8 Tbsp. granulated sugar,

3 tsp. ice water

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

It must be really hot.

Cook for eleven minutes. You want the outside of the cookie to be barely brown and the inside art to be white and still soft.

Froth first four ingredients in mixing bowl. I use a kitchen- aide mixer. But, a whisker would work very well.

Sift next five ingredients together into a small bowl. Add the water and stir it into flour mixture, a little bit. Then add all of these ingredients together into the mixing bowl. Mix very well on medium high speed for a couple of minutes or until it is all dissolved.

Let batter set a little while, it is better, this way.

Pour one Tablespoon of batter onto either a well greased cookie pan or use a special cookie mat. With the back of your metal spoon swirl the batter into about a four inch circle. I just do two at a time because after it is cooked, the folding has to be done quickly before the cookies cool, at all.

Wear white antique lace cotton gloves to keep from burning your fingers. when you remove them from the oven. Place the paper fortune in the middle of the cookie. Quickly fold cookie in half without cracking the seam and then fold this semi-circle, in the middle, over the side of the mixing bowl to get the crescent shape. (Google how to make fortune cookies for video on U-Tube)

I leave the other cookie on the pan with the oven door open until I finish folding the first cookie. Then do it, the same way.

Place the folded fortune cookies inside a muffin tin to let them cool so they will hold their shape.

This recipe is my own invention because I switched flour and did not have any corn starch. See other recipes on the web. Chinese Food , fortune cookie recipe

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