Roll out a round of sweetened rice-flour dough perhaps two inches in
diameter. Put a small slip of paper with a gnomic phrase (the fortune) on
it and sometimes lottery-numbers as well in the middle. Bring the east and
west edges together, forming a tube, then the north and south edges
together, forming a shell of sorts. Show to the fire. Remove and let
harden. Serve with the bill at the end of a meal in a Chinese restaurant.
The diners will have a fine time comparing their fates.
Frank O'Hara & co. published some fortune cookie fortunes. I myself (I
think I've told this story before) once made four sets of fifty such and
had a fortune cookie factory fold them into their product for a party.
Here's the only one I remember: "If you have broken this cookie with your
fingers/don't lick them."
At 08:51 AM 7/28/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Could Mark please explain to me what sort of biscuit is a fortune cookie?
>I am very vague about it. I dont think its like Proust.
>And my new little kitten is doing great.
>
>And while I am at it I realise that I will have to look `factitious'
>up in the dictionary. Anything like `fictitious'? Any explainers.
>Off to work.
>
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