Day 67
Dec. 17
Charlotte, NC
Dear Miss Smith,
Today we woke up to
the sound of goats bleating in the pastures. It was such fun to have goat
cheese, scones, and fresh egg omelets for breakfast, not to mention homemade
preserves. Our stay at the Celebrity Dairy has been a lot of fun.
After breakfast we
drove to Bear Creek to buy some treats at Southern Supreme Gourmet Specialties.
When we arrived we took a quick look at the gift shop, there were gift baskets
with fruitcake, chocolate-coated nuts, jams, and treats. The gift shop was really
pretty with all the Christmas decorations. Since none of us cared that much for
fruitcake, we decided to get some lemon tea biscuits, and some blackberry jam.
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| Lemon Tea Biscuits |
After buying our
treats we headed back to the RV to have lunch. Penelope and Timber seemed to know
that we had something good in our bag, and wanted some of it. However, we
didn't think it would be good for them, so we gave them each a dog treat
instead.
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| Mrs. Hanes |
After lunch we
drove to Clemmons, and went to Mrs. Hanes Handmade Moravian Cookies. A
delicious smell greeted us at the door, as we went into the special viewing
area to watch the cookies being made. There were six different “cookie
stations” where cookies were being rolled out, and cut by hand with cookie
cutters.
We would have liked a tour, but they don't have them during November
and December because they are to busy.
However, we did get to taste samples of
their six different kinds of cookies. There were ginger crisps, sugar crisps,
lemon crisps, chocolate crisps, butterscotch crisps, and black walnut crisps.
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| The first stove they used. |
My favorite flavor
was the sugar crisps, the recipe has been handed down for generations. The
sugar crisp was the first kind of cookie that they started making back when
Mrs. Hanes was a little girl, and lived on a small dairy farm. Mrs. Hanes and
her mother would bake cookies in a wood stove, to sell at Christmas time to
supplement the family income.
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| Mixing 10,000 pounds of dough! |
Katelyn's favorite
kind of cookie was the lemon crisps, and Priscilla's favorite were the ginger
crisps. The ginger crisps have long been the local Christmas favorite also.
After watching the “cookie making” for a little while, we were told that they
bake 1,000 cookies at a time, and that they bake around ten million cookies a
year!
After our visit to
Mrs. Hanes Handmade Moravian Cookies, we drove down to Charlotte to spend the
night.
From,
Kristina
P.S. We found Timber and Penelope on Priscilla's bed this morning. They
seemed very pleased with themselves.
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