To celebrate I have made some fortune cookies and as a family we are having a Chinese food feast with home made prawn toast (this has got to be the best holiday ever!)
So to start this is how I made the fortune cookies.
Ingredients
Directions- 1 egg white
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup white sugar
Mix the egg white and vanilla until foamy but not stiff. Sift the flour, salt, and sugar and blend into the egg white mixture.
Place teaspoonfuls of the batter at least 4 inches apart on one of the prepared cookie sheets. Tilt the sheet to move the batter into round shapes about 3 inches in diameter. Be careful to make batter as round and even as possible. Do not make too many, because the cookie have to be really hot to form them and once they cool it is too late. Start with 2 or 3 to a sheet and see how many you can do.
Bake for 5 minutes or until cookie has turned a golden colour 1/2 inch wide around the outer edge of the circle. The centre will remain pale. While one sheet is baking, prepare the other.
Remove from oven and quickly move cookie with a wide spatula and place upside down on a wooden board. Quickly place the fortune on the cookie, close to the middle and fold the cookie in half. Place the folded edge across the rim of a measuring cup and pull the pointed edges down, one on the inside of the cup and one on the outside. Place folded cookies into the cups of a muffin tin or egg carton to hold their shape until firm.
This is how you make prawn toast.
1) Put some prawns into a blender with some ginger and blend until you get a smooth paste.
2) Spread the paste onto a slice of bread.
3) Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.
4) Fry in some olive oil in a pan for a couple of minutes.
and it's done.
This is a picture of our feast and it was yummy!!
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