Agree, we live in an amazing time! Now we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the traditions of various peoples and apply them in our lives. One of such exotic rituals - Chinese fortune cookies, is especially loved by our citizens.
Having met this "psychic" delicacy for the first time in distant countries, people quickly realized that this is an analogue of our fortune-telling on dumplings, and that it can be prepared for the entertainment of guests or family members. Only you need to do everything correctly and carefully, so as not to spoil the New Year's mood, and not to "program" a person for failure or disaster. Let's take a look at the rules for making Chinese fortune cookies.
- Chinese fortune cookie recipe
- List of predictions
- How to read cookies?
Chinese Fortune Cookie Recipe
Shortbread dough is suitable for cookies. It is made from:
- butter (60 gr.),
- sugar (10g.),
- eggs (2 pcs.),
- flour (how much the dough will take).
Chop cold butter with a knife with flour and sugar, roll into a ball and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
In the meantime, prepare small pieces of paper with predictions. Please note that they will undergo heat treatment, therefore, it is advisable to print your wishes on a printer, and then cut the sheet into strips. Writing in ink and felt-tip pens can be damaged by heat. No 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. Put 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 ten minutes. You will immediately see that it is time to pull out by the color of the dough. It darkens rapidly. And the smell appears characteristic, tasty.
Remove from the sheet very carefully. The cookies are fragile and tender. Arrange it in one row on a wooden board or platter and wait until it cools. Then it is recommended to be laid out in a beautiful Chinese style vase or in a box. It will be even more interesting if you decorate the "tara" with ribbons or paper figures of dragons, hieroglyphs and so on. China is so China!
Wishes and predictions in cookies
Prediction can be turned into a fun and funny process if you prepare comic wishes, for example, the following:
- Help! They're keeping me in the oven!
- The best time to put these cookies back.
- Do it today, otherwise it may be illegal tomorrow.
- You will see the answer to your question at the bottom of the 10th glass of vodka you drink.
- Never forget your girlfriends, especially if they owe you money.
- The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but there are women who know a shorter way.
- If women only dressed for one man, they wouldn't get together for so long.
- Want to know the future? Send sms to 777777777777!
- Before using cookies, be sure to consult with your doctor.
- Something I’m out of sorts today, ask another cookie.
- Forget everything that previous cookies have told you …
- You'll be hungry again in an hour.
- Sorry, meat filling is not provided here :)
- Give you the next toast.
- Do you want something sweet? Drink dry!
- You will wake up to the kiss and the aroma of coffee.
- This is a message from another galaxy to the kindest person. Mission completed successfully!
And you can come up with such predictions that everyone can interpret in their own way. For example, such:
- For success to come - do not scare him off with a dull look.
- Get what you want.
- Do not wish for the best, it is the enemy of the good.
- Don't waste your energy on trifles.
- You need to live today, not yesterday or tomorrow.
- Closing the doors, Lord, leaves the window open.
- A thousand-kilometer journey begins with one step.
- The crisis is the door to new opportunities.
- You should not regret that you did not succeed, it is better to rejoice in what happened.
- Stop is a step back.
- Everything that happens is the way to the top.
- Stop darkening your life.
Or you can just print ready-made phrases on pieces of paper. Right-click on the picture and select "Save Image …" or "Save Image …"
How to read Chinese cookies?
To make it fun and interesting, cookies can be packed in small boxes and presented to each party. But it is much more fun to involve guests in the process of "fortune-telling". To do this, invite them to choose what will look at them. And then all together read the predictions-wishes and interpret what they mean. Believe me, you will hear a lot of such opinions, which you did not even suspect while preparing for the holiday.
