Aleuromancy

Aleuromancy (from the Greek: αλευρον, aleuron ["flour"] + μαντεία, manteia ["divination, soothsaying"]) is a method of divination conducted by use of flour, most commonly as a sortilege of balls of flour dough containing inside slips of paper with fortunes written on them. Lewis Spence in his Encyclopædia of Occultism (1920), p. 13, relates that "these were thoroughly mixed up nine times, and divided amongst the curious, who were waiting to learn their fate. Apollo, who was supposed to preside over this form of divination, was surnamed Aleuromantis."

The modern use of fortune cookies may be seen as a continuation of the aleuromantic method.