Fortune Cookies I

Description
Makes 36 cookies

Ingredients

 * 3 egg whites
 * ½ cup sugar
 * ⅛ tsp salt
 * ¼ tsp vanilla
 * 1 cup all-purpose flour
 * 1 tsp instant tea
 * 2 tbsp water
 * ½ cup margarine, melted
 * fortunes on slips of paper

Directions

 * 1) Mix egg whites, sugar and salt thoroughly with spoon.
 * 2) Mix in remaining ingredients, except fortunes.
 * 3) Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
 * 4) Preheat oven to 350°F.
 * 5) Grease baking sheet.
 * 6) Have clean white cotton gloves ready to use when folding and shaping the hot cookies.
 * 7) If gloves are not available, use two pieces of paper towelling folded to several thicknesses to protect fingers from the hot cookies.
 * 8) Also have some clean muffin tins ready to hold baked cookies while they cool.
 * 9) Shape and bake 2 cookies at a time.
 * 10) For each cookie, drop 1 teaspoon batter onto a baking sheet.
 * 11) Spread the batter with back of spoon to make a 3-inch circle.
 * 12) Bake at 350f for 3 to 5 minutes, or until edges turn light brown.
 * 13) Work very quickly.
 * 14) Remove one cookie with wide spatula to counter top.
 * 15) Place a fortune paper across center of cookie.
 * 16) Using gloves or paper towelling, fold edge of cookie over to make a semicircle.
 * 17) Hold cookie on the ends and place the middle of folded edge over top of muffin pan; bend ends down.
 * 18) Place folded cookie carefully in a muffin cup to cool.
 * 19) Repeat process.

== Nutritional information Serving of 2 cookies: 80 calories, ½ starch/bread, 1 fat exchange 2 grams protein, 6 grams fat, 6 grams carbohydrate 84 mg sodium, 0 cholesterol