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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Sarah Pratt might lack the skills to handle live cattle, but she’s proven herself a master when it comes to creating a life-size cow made from butter.
Sarah Pratt might lack the skills to handle live cattle, but she’s proven herself a master when it comes to creating a life-size cow made from butter. The sculptor of the butter cow annually displayed at the Illinois State Fair needs just 500 pounds of butter, five days and 10 magical fingers to get the
Sarah Pratt was an apprentice under famed “Butter Cow Lady” Norma Duffy Lyon for many years. When Norma retired, Sarah stepped up and spends her summers sculpting butter cows and related themes at the Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas State Fairs, along with scattered special projects. She can’t do it full time because her first love […]
Long time Iowa State Fair butter sculptor Sarah Pratt, along with her apprentices Hannah and Grace, will meticulously sculpt the likenesses of Jack Trice, Kurt Warner and Caitlin Clark.
It's a tribute to Duffy Lyon, the butter cow creator for more than four decades.