SC - Re: Viking Exhibit

[Terry L. Neill]

I do seem to recall having seen the cookies in a catalogue that I get, maybe
Williams Sonoma or Deane and DeLucca....

I'll check some of my cookbooks and see if I can find a recipe.

Kiri

Bonne of Traquair wrote:

> history on
> > > Maravian Spice
> > > Cookies. Can you help me and if so can you send me the history for
> > > these
> > > wonderful cookies?
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > Lady Jacquetta Edington of Yorkshire
>
> MOravian Spice Cookies.  Aren't they addictive?  Another thing on the before
> moving to do list is to go to Old Salem and enjoy them and sugar cake with a
> picnic on the village green. (sob!)
>
> A web search on the correct spelling, or "Old Salem" or Salem, NC might find
> useful information.  My general knowledge is the cookies were brought to NC
> by a religious sect that originated in Moravia. The Moravian religion is
> still thriving in NC. I have Moravian friends that make the cookies and we
> were wondering a few days ago if they were always that thin, or if they have
> become thinner through the last 2 centuries.  A case of striving ever harder
> to meet ever rising standards?  It's all but impossible to roll them as thin
> as the expensive cookies in the red canister.  Last I heard, those were
> still not machine rolled, but the ladies that roll them have so much more
> practice at it than any of us will have.
>
> Bonne
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