Old Salem Moravian Cookies

Closely linked historically with the Pennsylvania Dutch, the pious sect of German Protestants known as Moravians, who settled in the piedmont sections of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina during the eighteenth century, were renowned for the spicy cakes and cookies baked at Christmas and Easter. The most famous settlement of all was around Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and today, Old Salem boasts not only some of the most exquisite restored houses and buildings in the entire country bu