Our Family Food Favorites: 7 Layer Cookies

Mar 28, 2015

7 Layer Cookies

We made these cookies every Christmas, and, as often as we could get away with it, in between.

7 LAYER COOKIES

Melt 1 stick of butter in a 9 x13 pan and add 1 tsp of vanilla. Sprinkle 1 cup graham cracker crumbs (10 to 12 crackers) over. Sprinkle 1 cup cocoanut, and add 6 oz chocolate chips, 6 oz butterscotch chips. Then dribble 1 can Eagle Brand condensed milk and 1 cup chopped pecans (or walnuts). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool and cut.

Recipe shared by Sheila.

"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.