Hello, dear blog readers! Today we will look at how to make original Chinese fortune cookies. The history of this dessert began a long time ago in China.
As you know, people always looked for advice from above if they found themselves in an uncertain situation. And the Chinese sweet treat was created by local craftsmen precisely so that a person could receive wise advice.
The Chinese themselves also call such baked goods with a note inside “lucky cookies.”
This unique fortune dessert idea then spread throughout the world, and today these cookies are very popular. They are usually given to loved ones as holiday gifts. This dessert may well become the “highlight” of the festive program! And it's very popular cookies with M&M's candies .
It's so exciting and delicious! Of course, you can buy similar cookies in the store, but it’s more interesting to try making them yourself! Let's start cooking.
Components:
1. Wheat flour - 0.5 cups
2. Chicken eggs (whites) - 2 pieces
3. Sugar - 0.5 cups
4. Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
5. Water - 2-3 tablespoons
6. Salt - a pinch
Cooking method:
1. Take two chicken eggs and carefully separate the whites from the yolks. Make sure that not a drop of yolk gets into our squirrels.
2. Add a pinch of salt to the whites and beat with a mixer. The whites should increase slightly in volume.
When the protein mass has become fluffy, add half a glass of sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form. You can check the readiness. When you turn the mixing bowl over, the thick mixture should remain in place. IN this recipe shown as it should be.
3. At the next stage, add sifted flour to the resulting protein-sugar mass and vegetable oil. Mix all components thoroughly and gently until smooth.
4. We have obtained a rather thick, homogeneous dough, and now we need to make it thinner. To do this, pour a couple of tablespoons of water into it and stir. Batter It will be easier to spread on the form.
5. Now we need to prepare the parchment for baking. Take a glass with a diameter of 7-8 cm and use it to draw six identical circles on a parchment sheet with a pencil.
6. Let’s start forming our “pancakes”. Turn the parchment over with the drawn side down, scoop out one teaspoon of dough and distribute it over the first “circle”.
The dough must be spread very carefully so as not to go beyond the boundaries of the mold. We do the same procedure with the remaining five drawn circles.
Let's start baking:
7. Now we place our preparations in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. oven, bake for 5 minutes.
8. The edges of the cookies should be browned.
9. For the next stage we will need pieces of paper with fortunes, one glass and coffee cups. Turn off the oven and open it, take out the finished “pancakes” one at a time.
Cookies must be formed while hot, since they are quite fragile when cooled. Place a note in the center of the baked “circle” and fold it in half,
10. Then we form it on the edge of the glass.
11. Place the cookies in a coffee mug until they cool, where they will take their final shape.
12. From the specified amount of ingredients, you get approximately 24 cookies with a diameter of 7.5 cm. Our cookies are ready! Give it to your loved ones and enjoy the delicious taste and interesting process together! Bon appetit!
13. Make your cookies more fun and colorful by adding a few drops of brightly colored food coloring to the dough! This dessert will lift your spirits even more!
14. This is what the final pink product will look like.
15. Surprise your family and friends by giving them a box of wonderful pastries.
Additional components can be added to this recipe. For example, cinnamon, vanilla or vanilla extract. It all depends on your preferences.
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We live in amazing times! The world has become accessible. Perhaps globalization, as some philosophers believe, threatens humanity, but it also provides very nice gifts and opportunities. Nowadays we can easily get acquainted with the best traditions other peoples and apply them in your life.
One of these exotic rituals, Chinese fortune cookies, especially quickly fell in love with our people and came into use.
Faced with “psychic” delicacies in eastern countries, our citizens quickly realized that it could be prepared to entertain guests or family members. It's like our fortune telling with dumplings.
However, everything must be done correctly and carefully so as not to spoil the festive mood in New Year's Eve and not to set anyone very impressionable up for failure or misfortune with some inappropriate wish or prediction.
The day before New Year(and St. Nicholas or Catholic Christmas- who cares which is closer) let's get acquainted with the intricacies of making Chinese cookies with wishes.
First of all, of course, yourself wishes and predictions in Chinese cookies
This is a delicate matter, like the whole East, however.
Think about it, if your grandmother gets a prediction that she will get married (while your grandfather is still alive!), will she be very happy?
The Chinese are wise people. They come up with predictions and wishes that everyone can understand based on their own worldview and life situation.
Here examples of wishes and predictions, which you can use (or come up with your own, similar):
1.When God closes a door, he opens a window
2. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
3. Never be afraid to do what you don't know how to do. Remember, the ark was built by an amateur. Professionals built the Titanic!
4. It’s better to regret what you did, rather than what you didn’t do.
5. He who stands still goes back.
6. Whatever is not done is for the better.
7. No one is defeated until he admits himself to be defeated.
8. Struggle is always justified if you know what you are striving for.
9. The main thing is not to forget the main thing. Otherwise you will forget the main thing, and this is the main thing!
10. Don’t strive to be a hero until they call you.
11. These people and these events in your life ended up here because you yourself brought them here. What happens next is up to you.
12. Never ask anyone for anything, especially those who are stronger than you - they will come and give everything.
13. Only fools are lucky once. Smart people are always lucky.
14. Evil is not in what goes into a person’s mouth, but in what comes out of them.
15. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
16. Don't think.
17. If you think, don't say it.
18. If you think and speak, don’t write.
19. If you think, speak, write, don’t subscribe.
20. If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.
21. If you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t start anything. And if you don’t start anything, then nothing will happen.
22.People love to win. If you haven't decided on your final goal, you have no chance of winning.
23. Purpose determines success.
24. Goal is the main reference point for investing energy and time.
25. A woman’s success is not many men, but one.
26. The secret to successful promotion is the beginning.
27. The secret to getting started is breaking down your complex tasks into small, easily completed tasks and completing them, starting with the first one.
28. No matter how big and complex the problem in front of you, take a small step towards solving it.
29. There is always a way out of a hopeless situation.
30. Never give up on your dreams.
31. When you want something, the whole Universe will help make your wish come true.
32.Today the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday has just arrived.
33. There are no hopeless situations: even if you are eaten, you at least have two options.
34. If you were born without wings, don’t stop them from growing.
35. A dog has so many friends because he wags his tail instead of wagging his tongue.
36. You are unique, just like everyone else.
37. Love your enemies... this will definitely infuriate them!
38. There are no hopeless situations. Usually the exit is in the same place as the entrance.
39. It’s not enough to know your worth—you also need to be in demand.
40. You will be very successful in business.
41. Changes await you.
42. If you haven’t met your love yet, you definitely will this year.
43. Don't let anyone stand in your way to happiness.
44. Do not judge anyone so that they do not judge you.
45. Life is a miracle given to us from above.
46. Envy destroys a person’s soul.
Chinese fortune cookie recipe very simple - regular shortbread dough will do.
It is made from butter (60 g), sugar (10 g), eggs (2 pcs.), flour (as much as the dough takes).
Chop the cold butter with a knife with flour and sugar, roll into a ball and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
And at this time, prepare small pieces of paper with predictions.
Please note that they will undergo heat treatment, therefore, it is advisable to print out the wishes on a printer and then cut the sheet into strips.
Writing with ink and felt-tip pens may be damaged by heat. If you don't have a printer at home, write with a ballpoint pen.
Now roll out the dough into a thin layer (no more than half a centimeter). Cut into squares with a side of three to four cm. Place a folded piece of paper inside and fold the “envelope”, fixing all four corners in the center.
Cookies are baked in a heated (180 degrees) oven.
Cooking time – up to five minutes.
You will immediately see that it is time to pull out the color of the dough. It is rapidly getting dark.
And the smell appears characteristic and tasty. WITH
The sheets must be removed very carefully. The cookies turn out fragile and tender.
Place it in a single row on a wooden board or dish and wait until it cools. Then it is recommended to place it in a beautiful Chinese-style vase or box.
It will be even more interesting if you decorate the “container” with ribbons or paper figures of dragons, hieroglyphs, and so on. China is China!
How to tell fortunes using Chinese cookies?
To make it fun and interesting, cookies can be packed in small boxes and given to each party participant. But it is much more exciting to involve guests in the process of “fortune telling”. To do this, invite them to choose what will look at them. And then read the predictions and wishes together and interpret what they mean. Believe me, you will hear many opinions that you had no idea about while preparing the holiday.
Fortune cookies (Fate cookies, Luck cookies, Happiness cookies, Fortune cookies) come from China. According to Chinese custom, when families have children, parents make cookies with a message baked inside announcing the birth of the child. The cookies are baked in the form of a pancake, with a piece of paper with a fortune placed inside. Then the cookies are wrapped while still hot and frozen in the required shape. These cookies are great for entertaining guests at various parties, banquets, children's parties or on New Year's Eve. Valentine's Day is coming soon, these cookies can definitely be a very interesting and tasty reason to tell your other half about your feelings. The main thing is to choose the appropriate predictions or wishes. It’s easy to come up with them yourself (what scope for creative impulse!) and write them by hand. Or you can use our templates of traditional Eastern wisdom. You can download wishes completely free of charge here http://vk.com/godovasieunas Print wishes (sayings, prophecies) on paper. Cut the sheets. It is advisable to print the inscription on paper using a laser printer. If you write by hand, the heat may cause the ink to float and the inscription will not be readable. By the way, Briton Danny Williams from Essex County won half a million dollars in the summer of 2008 - he wrote down the numbers he found in a biscuit prediction on a lottery ticket. So the main thing is to believe! Let's get started!
- Recipe author: Olesya Fisenko
- After cooking you will receive 12
- Cooking time: 25 min
Ingredients
- 2 pcs. egg
- 20 gr. vegetable oil
- 55 gr. powdered sugar
- 55 gr. wheat flour
Cooking method
Separate the yolks from the whites. Yolks can be used to make custard, for example.
Lightly beat the whites with a whisk, add vegetable oil and beat again until a slight foam forms.
Sift flour and powdered sugar into a separate container and stir.
Add 7 teaspoons of cold water and stir the mixture.
Combine the egg and flour mixtures and use a blender to bring the mixture until smooth.
Leave the dough for 10 minutes to allow air bubbles to come out. The dough should turn out liquid like kefir with a small percentage of fat content. If you think the dough is too thick, add a couple more teaspoons of water and stir the dough.
Grease a Teflon-coated baking dish with butter. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. It is very convenient to pour the dough using a salad ring (7-8 cm in diameter). Place the ring in the mold and pour one tablespoon of dough into it. Then remove the ring and repeat the procedure.
It is best to bake no more than 3-4 cookies at a time. This is due to the fact that the cookies cool very quickly and become brittle.
Bake the cookies in the middle of the oven for about 4 minutes. You need to keep an eye on the cookies; as soon as the edges are browned, take them out.
Now we need to act quickly. It is very convenient to use silicone gloves to immediately start shaping cookies. Carefully separate the cookies from the mold, place them on the palm of your hand and place a fortune in the middle of the cookies.
Fold the cookies exactly in half.
Then, using a mug, fold it in half again. We fix it on the mug for a few seconds.
Then, to secure the shape, place the cookies in a glass.
We immediately begin to form the next cookies.
As soon as the first batch is formed, we proceed to the next one. The cookies turn out crispy, but not brittle.
We wish you only good predictions!
There you are good way quickly and healthily please your guests. Chinese fortune cookies. There is a theory that in fact they were invented by the Americans, and Chinese restaurants and cafes only seized on this national idea. Some people believe that the birthplace of destiny cookies is Japan. What difference does it make to us, the main thing is to catch two birds with one stone - to feed them deliciously and make them happy.
Products:
1. Flour - 100 gr.
2. Powdered sugar— 150 gr.
3. Butter- 60 gr.
4. Cinnamon - 1 tbsp. spoon
5. Egg whites - 4 pcs.
How to make Chinese fortune cookies:
First of all, melt the butter in a saucepan and set aside to cool. The simplest thing is to cut the butter into cubes and heat it briefly in a saucepan. Moreover, do not wait for complete dissolution; warm oil will melt the remaining small pieces and it will cool down faster.
Sift flour and powder into a bowl.
Mix all ingredients well. The dough will be thick and lumpy at first, but will become smooth.
When the dough becomes smooth, add spices. Here you don’t have to limit yourself to cinnamon. Some people add “5 Chinese spices”, others add vanilla and so on. Here you can add dye, if you especially want to please with red hearts, for example)
Then everything is simple, spoon the dough and spread it into a very thin layer of pancakes about 8-10 cm in diameter. Here you need to get used to both thickness and evenness. You can use round rings as templates.
You shouldn’t make a lot of pancakes at once, start with two. They harden and harden very quickly; you may simply not have time to mold them. Bake at 180 degrees. We determine the baking time visually - the edges of the cookies should acquire a ruddy tint. Next, take out the pancakes, place a note in the center and fold them in half.
And now the most interesting thing is that even some Chinese establishments do not take the next step (folding the cookies incorrectly). All you need is to wrap the folded edge of the cookie around the neck of your mug or glass. Many people asked for clarification - the shortcakes are very hot, watch your fingers!!)
This is how they become oddly shaped (which looks a little like a heart) and the note in this shape is not visible until you break the cookie. If your cookies are moving back, put them in a mug or small glasses (the walls will keep the cookies from unfolding).
An important point - at first it may seem to you that they are too soft (usually the edges harden quickly, but the rest of the surface is soft). But in an hour everything will fall into place. You will get a fragrant, crispy shell. These cookies will easily last for a couple of days.
What to write in the note is up to you. Maybe these will be aphorisms, words of gratitude to loved ones, important words or even a PROPOSAL!)
"Home Recipes" wishes you bon appetit!