{"id":45,"date":"2023-07-08T17:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/business\/evva-hanes-who-made-moravian-cookies-world-famous-dies-at-90\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:56:21","slug":"evva-hanes-who-made-moravian-cookies-world-famous-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/business\/evva-hanes-who-made-moravian-cookies-world-famous-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Evva Hanes, Who Made Moravian Cookies World Famous, Dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Evva Hanes, a North Carolina farm woman who took a centuries-old Moravian cookie tradition that she had learned by watching her mother bake on a wood-fired stove and turned it into a family business, one that now ships out millions of fragile, crispy Moravian cookies every year, died on June 22 at her home in Clemmons, N.C. She was 90.<\/p>\n

The cause was complications of brain cancer, said her grandson Jedidiah Hanes Templin, who is president of the Moravian Sugar Crisp Company, better known as Mrs. Hanes\u2019 Hand-Made Moravian Cookies.<\/p>\n

The Moravians were pre-Reformation Eastern European protestants who sought refuge from persecution in Germany. Before the American Revolutionary War, some left for Pennsylvania, taking with them a recipe for a spice-heavy ginger cookie called Lebkuchen.<\/p>\n

They kept moving, and in the mid-1700s they began a religious community on a large tract of land in North Carolina that would become the city of Winston-Salem. The Southern food scholar John Egerton wrote that the North Carolina Moravians, like the Pennsylvania Dutch \u2014 whom he called \u201ctheir theological and gastronomical kin\u201d \u2014 have maintained a strong baking tradition that is hundreds of years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n