Our Family Food Favorites: Pumpkin Bars

Dec 30, 2019

Pumpkin Bars

From the Sharing Recipes Cookbook- A Book of Favorite Recipes- Compiled by Longview 1st Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1985. (Lovingly called The Fat Lady Cookbook) The recipe was shared by Phyllis Thompson.

Pumpkin Bars

4 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 #303 can (or 2 cups) pumpkin
2 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon cinnamon

Combine ingredients, spread on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Frosting

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon milk
3 oz. cream cheese, softened
3/4 cube butter

Beat together and spread on cool bars.

"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.