Fortune Cookies

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FORTUNE COOKIES

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Serving Size : 18 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cookies

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3 Egg whites
1/2 c Sugar
1/8 ts Salt
1/4 ts Vanilla
1 c All-purpose flour
1 t Instant tea
2 tb Water
1/2 c Margarine, melted
Fortunes on slips of paper

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

Source: The Complete Diabetic Cookbook, P.J. Palumbo,
M.D., and Joyce Margie with recipes by young cooks by
Paul Margie, 1987 Mayo Foundation

Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Dec 93



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