Fortune Cookies
 


Ingredients:
  • 1/2 c  Margarine, melted
  •    2 tb Water
  •    1 ts Instant tea
  •    3    Egg whites
  • 1/2 c  Sugar
  • 1/8 ts Salt
  • 1/4 ts Vanilla
  • 1 c     All-purpose flour
  •           Fortunes on slips of paper

 
Direction:
   Mix egg whites, sugar and salt thoroughly with spoon.  Mix in
   remaining ingredients, except fortunes.  Cover bowl with plastic wrap
   and chill for 30 minutes.

   Preheat oven to 350 F.  Grease baking sheet.  Have clean white cotton
   gloves ready to use when folding and shaping the hot cookies.  If
   gloves are not available, use two pieces of paper towelling folded to
   several thicknesses to protect fingers from the hot cookies.  Also
   have some clean muffin tins ready to hold baked cookies while they
   cool.

   Shape and bake 2 cookies at a time.  For each cookie, drop 1 teaspoon
   batter onto a baking sheet.  Spread the batter with back of spoon to
   make a 3-inch circle.

   Bake at 350F for 3 to 5 minutes, or until edges turn light brown.

   WORK VERY QUICKLY.  Remove one cookie with wide spatula to counter
   top. Place a fortune paper across center of cookie.  Using gloves or
   paper towelling, fold edge of cookie over to make a semicircle.  Hold
   cookie on the ends and place the middle of folded edge over top of
   muffin pan; bend ends down.  Place folded cookie carefully in a
   muffin cup to cool. Repeat process.  Makes 36 cookies.

   Serving of 2 cookies:  80 calories, 1/2 starch/bread, 1 fat exchange 2
   grams protein, 6 grams fat, 6 grams carbohydrate 84 mg sodium, 0
   cholesterol.