Our Family Food Favorites: December 2022

Dec 11, 2022

Chocolate Pound Cake

This recipe is from a friend in Rowlett, Texas.

Chocolate Pound Cake

1 yellow cake mix (w/o pudding)

1 small package instant vanilla pudding

1 small package instant chocolate pudding

4 eggs

1/2 cup oil

1 1/2 cup water

1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together, except chocolate chips. Stir in chocolate chips. Spoon mixture into a greased Bundt cake pan and bake for 45 mins. Cool. Dust cake with powdered sugar.

"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.