SECOND HELPINGS: Good fortune in 2008

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Dec 31, 2007

Good fortune in 2008

Fortunecookies1231_2Happy new year from junior food blogger Erika Pitcher, who wanted to share her recipe for fortune cookies, which she made for tonight's big Pitcher family bash.

The recipe is from the "Pink Princess Cookbook" by Barbara Beery (Gibbs Smith, 2006) a Christmas gift from Aunt Kate and Uncle Craig.

You can fill the cookies with whatever fortunes you'd like. Mine: "Hop on one foot." I'm not sure what that means for the new year. Perhaps some exercise.

FORTUNE COOKIES

  • 2 to 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 pie crust dough (store-bought is fine)
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • Colored sugar

Write a note of good fortune on two-inch-long strips of paper with a pen or non-toxic marker.

Sprinkle cornstarch on your work area and smooth it out with your hand.

Unfold one pie crust at a time and place on your work area. Turn over both sides to dust with cornstarch. Flatten and smooth out wrinkles with a rolling pin. With a 3-inch round cookie cutter cut out 4 to 6 circles per pie crust. Re-roll the dough scraps if you'd like.

Put one fortune in the center of each circle and fold in half. Then, fold the semicircle in half. Brush each fortune cookie with a little water to moisten. Dip one side of each cookie into a colored sugar.

Place on a cookie sheet, sugar side up. Place cookies 2 inches apart.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Carefully take from oven and cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely before eating.

Yield: 12 cookies.

Posted by Bill Pitcher on Dec 31, 2007 at 09:05 PM |

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BILL PITCHER is an editor in the Features department of The Record and Herald News and previously was a freelance food writer and restaurant reviewer. He was born in New York's Hudson Valley and was raised in the southern Adirondacks.
E-mail: pitcher@northjersey.com

ELISA UNG has been the restaurant reviewer and dining columnist for The Record since 2007. She's a native of Southern California and a graduate of the University of Southern California, and she spent eight years writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
E-mail: ung@northjersey.com

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