The Sun City Texas Italian Club Makes Holiday Traditions

By Ernesto Berturand


It is said that love may be expressed through cooking and the Sun City Texas Italian club is no exception. Every holiday season the tradition of preparing homemade Italian sausage is an excuse for the Italian club members at Sun City Texas to get together at the VFW building in Georgetown. It is there that they prepare the pork with spices, garlic and parsley and grind it for stuffing into the sausage casings.

For around five years the Sun City Texas Italian club women and men have respected this amazing family custom. Despite the fact that they originate throughout the United States each will thinks back to his or her youth when ever they would see fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers joining together to produce sausage each and every year right after Thanksgiving and just ahead of Christmas time.

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 delicious custom the creation of sausage is! The sausage produced by the Sun City Texas Italian Club men and women is only made available to the club members for purchase. This holiday season the group created nearly one hundred fifty pounds of both mild and hot and spicy flavors. The sausage making group is made up of predominantly men and a single woman who washes the intestines utilized for sausage casing and chopping the onions. This lady also prepares lunch for the 20 adult men participating in sausage preparation.

The Sun City Texas Italian Club was formed eight years ago as a way to bring people of Italian heritage together and also include those who have an appreciation for Italian culture. The club currently has about 80 members. The group gets together often for cooking classes. Memories of family traditions brought from the old country, menus and everything that has been handed down family to family is why the Sun City Texas Italian Club gets together once a year to make Italian sausage.




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