[AT] Sausage

[George Willer]

Frobl,

This will really make you hungry!  Pop's oldest brother Jim, born in 1897,
was usually in charge of the rendering kettle.  He was fond of the pig's
ears.  He'd throw one or more in the kettle  with the cut-up fat and let it
cook.  I have the mind's image of him holding the ear like a piece of pizza
in one hand and a salt shaker in the other.  He looked like he thought he
was in Heaven!

Pop's the only one left of the 9 kids that reached adulthood.  I'll ask him
if he remembers.  I'll also ask if he remembers making ponhaas.

George Willer

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From: "Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: [AT] Sausage


> Here I am sitting here at 1 PM waiting on a late
> lunch and you guys are still talking about food. It is
> causing great suffering...   ;-)
> Diana's folks, of all German/Swiss background, used
> to make the best tasting sausage when butchering that
> I ever ate. Ever... Her dads grandfather was born in
> Baden Germany and his grandmother was born in Bavaria.
> On her mother's side they have been on this side of
> the pond for a very long time but they always stayed
> in a tight close group (some were Mennonite) so never
> mixed much and retained many of the old food skills.
> Diana is one of the first in her family to marry a non
> German/Swiss. One of the first here came as a Hessian
> soldier during the revolution. The Swiss were mostly
> from near Zurich and I think from further north before
> that so still mostly German.
> Sadly now there is no one left in her family that
> butchers or cooks in the old ways. Several are good
> cooks just not the old ways.
> I say that I'm a non-German but 1/2 of my mother's
> line were German (Miller, Minnich, Stumph etc). My
> fathers Robinson line started in Kessen's part of the
> world as the Viking Clan Gunn. Then to Scotland, then
> as Robinson to England (Cleasby, Yorkshire), then
> America (Virginia) as representatives of the crown
> about the mid 1600's. One side of my mothers line is
> also Robinson, probably connected to the other line
> but not found yet beyond Maryland about 1800. Maybe
> they are where I get my love for fish & chips and
> Fordson Major Diesels.   :-)
> I sure would like to find some sausage that tastes
> like those her dad used to make...
>
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> Central Indiana, USA
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