Fortune Cookies

Ingredients required:

3 egg whites

½C. sugar

1/8 tsp. salt

¼ tsp. vanilla

1 C. all purpose flour

1 tsp. instant tea

2 Tbs. water

½C. margarine, melted

Fortunes on slips of paper

How to Make:

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 degrees Fahrenheit 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 toweling folded to several thicknesses to protect fingers from the hot cookies. Also have some clean muffin tins ready to hold baked cookies while they are cool. Shape and Cook in the oven 2 cookies at a time. For each cookie, drop 1 tsp. batter onto a baking sheet. Spread the batter with back of spoon to make a 3-inch circle. Cook in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 to 5 minutes, or until edges turn light brown. Work very quickly. Remove 1 cookie with wide spatula to counter top. Place a fortune paper across center of cookie. Fold edge of cookie over to make a semicircle using gloves or paper toweling. 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 C. to cool. Repeat process.