The Fortune Cookie Factory

 

This is a fortune cookie factory located in an alleyway in San Francisco's Chinatown.  An egg, flour, sugar and water mixture is released into a small round pan which is rotated through a gas oven on a belt. The mixture exits the oven as a 3 to 4 inch cookie.  The worker picks it off the belt, puts a printed fortune in the center, folds it in half, pulls it down over a thin rod and sets it in a cooling rack.


Recipe:
1 large egg
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 to 2 Tbsp of water

Beat egg slightly.  Add sugar and beat until very thick and smooth.  Add oil to mixture.  Add water and a little of the egg mixture to the cornstarch and stir until smooth; beat into egg mixture.  Heat griddle to about 350*.  Drop a heaping teaspoonful of batter into the griddle.  Then spread with a spoon into a cookie about 3 inches in diameter an d about 1/8 inch thick.  Turn over to brown underside.  Cook until cookies are light golden in color and lifts easily from the pan.  Remove cookies one at a time from the griddle.  Place a fortune paper in the center of the cookie and fold the cookie in half, pinching the edges together and folding down.


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