vendredi 28 février 2014

What's Cooking At The Sun City Texas Italian Club?

By Ernesto Berturand


It is commonly thought that love is sometimes conveyed through creating food and the Sun City Texas Italian Club isn't any exception to this rule. For every holiday period the practice of fixing homemade Italian sausage is a motive for the Italian club members at Sun City Texas to join together inside the VFW building in Georgetown. It is there that they season the pork with the help of spices, garlic cloves and parsley and grind it for filling into the sausage casings.

For about five years the Sun City Texas Italian club members have kept this particular family custom. Regardless that they originate throughout the United States each will looks back to his or her earlier childhood days whenever they would delight in fathers, mothers, grandfathers as well as grandmothers joining together to make sausage each year right after Thanksgiving and just preceding Christmas.

Using a hand meat grinder bolted to the kitchen table, family members would take turns cranking the grinder to create the sausages that were uniquely spiced by each family. The kitchen was always filled with aromas, a hustle, taste-testing and fun. It is an old tradition in Italian families all over Italy that has carried over to this country to this day. In Italy, the slaughtering of pigs for the preparation of holiday sausage was and still is a community event and a reason to get together and visit with relatives, friends and neighbors.

What a savory tradition the creation of sausage happens to be! The sausage made by the Sun City Texas Italian Club men and women is exclusively made available to members for purchase. This season the group created approximately one hundred fifty lbs. of both mild and peppery types. The sausage making group consists of primarily men and one female who washes the intestines used for sausage casing together with cutting up the yellow onion. This lady also cooks lunch for the 20 adult men involved in sausage making.

The Sun City Texas Italian Club was organized 8 years back in an effort to get men and women of Italian heritage all together and also involve those who have an affection for Italian culture. The club at present consists of close to eighty men and women. The membership gets together routinely for cooking lessons. Recollections associated with family ways of life transported from the old country, menus and everything that may have been handed down family to family members is the main reason why the Sun City Texas Italian Club gets all together every year to make Italian sausage.




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