Fortune Cookie

Ingredients:

1 egg white

⅛ Teaspoon vanilla extract

1 pinch of salt

¼ cup white sugar

Directions:

1.    Preheat oven to 400 degrees F, butter cookie sheet, write fortunes on strips of paper about 4 inches long, grease 2 cookie sheet.

2.    Mix the egg white and vanilla extract until foamy but not stiff, sift the flour, salt, and sugar, and blend into the egg white mixture.

3.    Place teaspoonful of butter at least 4 inches apart on one of the prepared cookie sheet, tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 3 inches in diameter, be careful to make the batter as round and even as possible, do not make too many, because the cookie has to be hot to form them; once it’s too cold it’s too late, start with 2-3 to a sheet.

4.    Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie is golden brown ½ inch wide around the outer edge of the circle, the center will remain pale while one sheet is baking, prepare the others.

5.    Remove from oven quickly, move cookie with wide spatula and place upside down on a wooden board, quickly place the fortune on the cookie, close the middle and fold the cookie in half, place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed edge down on the inside of the cup and one on the outside, place folded cookie into cup of muffin tin or egg container to hold their shape until firm.