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brother, Mike, as treasurer. Mona, now 65, recently added the
90,000th devoted customer to their mailing list.
Through it all, they've held fast to their mission: "not to
be the biggest, but the best cookie makers in the world."
If the Hanes family wanted to be the biggest, they might've
followed in the footsteps of their competitors, all of whom
make Moravian cookies with a machine.
But a machine-made cookie just doesn't taste as good, Mona
explains. "Our bakers have decades of experience. They know
when to add flour and just how much to add. That consistency
changes based on the weather. You have to know when it feels
right. A machine doesn't know."
From adding the ingredients - spices, black molasses, and
vegetable shortening - to filling the tins, every cookie is
prepared with care. "There's not one step of the process where
a person is not involved," Mona says. "When it goes into the
oven, it's looked at. When it comes out of the oven, it's looked
at. When you pack it in the bags, a person is hand-packing it.
When you put it in the tin, someone is looking at it again."
Plus, Travis adds, there's the publicity that comes with
being the largest producer of hand-rolled, hand-cut, and
hand-packaged Moravian cookies in the world. "One year,

Oprah picked our cookie as one of her favorite things," he
remembers. "She said it wouldn't be Christmas if her pal,
Quincy Jones, didn't send her - and many other celebrities -
our cookies."
Evva may be retired, but it's not unusual to spot her behind
the glass at the bakery, pitching in if the 30-plus artists in
aprons need an extra set of hands. Even at 87, Evva holds the
efficiency record. "After our bakers have been trained, we hope
they will make 30 pounds of cookies a day," Travis says. "Evva
could go down there now and make twice as many as anybody."
When Evva's grandson, Jed, moved
back home from Kansas two years
ago to join the bakery as vice
president, he became the ninth
generation to carry on his
family's Moravian cookie
tradition. "My mother would
never believe it," Evva says.
"I can't believe it. It makes
me happy."

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all in advance
(336-764-1402) to
schedule a tour of Grandma's
Kitchen, the "Secret Recipe"
mixing room, and the baking
Mrs. Hanes' artists in aprons
in action.
Tours are given MondayFriday, January through
October. Or, you can just
swing by and watch the
process through a special
viewing window, sample
all the cookie flavors, and
take home a few tins of
your favorites.
The sales floor is open MondayFriday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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