Our Family Food Favorites: Evelyn Anderson's Sweet Potatoes

Feb 11, 2016

Evelyn Anderson's Sweet Potatoes

This recipe came from our friends, Don and Evelyn Anderson.

We call it Don's Favorite Sweet Potatoes.
We had it at their house one Thanksgiving.
It is Delicious!

4 medium sweet potatoes, choose evenly shaped ones
Boil the sweet potatoes the day ahead and refrigerate overnight.

Cut the sweet potatoes into evenly sized rounds.

1/2 cup butter
2 T. water
1/4 cup brown sugar
Mix together in an electric skillet (or a cast iron skillet, if you don't have the electric skillet). Place the sliced sweet potatoes in the brown sugar mixture. Cook on medium heat until golden on one side, then turn. Turn only once! It allows them to get a little crisp, which is delicious!

Recipe shared by Evelyn Anderson and Sheila Brinkerhoff.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.