Sausage making is an enduring winter tradition for many Italian-Australians, and as the weather cools down, families are now getting stuck in a stocking up their supplies. A tradition of annual ‘pig day’, where new generations are now learning to keep these treasured recipes alive.
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00:00In a shed in Adelaide, the Cagliazza family is hard at work.
00:07It's pig day and they're making enough Italian sausages to last their family an entire year.
00:13When you cook, you've got to cook with love.
00:14You can't be in a hurry.
00:15Isn't that what you always say?
00:17Waves of Italian migration to Australia took place following the Second World War.
00:22Many brought their recipes and traditions with them.
00:24Yep, there we go.
00:25Slow down.
00:26Colonel Null says he rented for a few years after moving and wasn't able to make sausages
00:31or wine until he bought his own home.
00:33We bought our house where we live now and we start to do everything, wine, everything.
00:40Mostly we do wine.
00:42That's the interesting thing you've got to do because it's good for your health.
00:46Pig day also represents family and community.
00:49It's a special day for us because we have like a feast.
00:53We make sausages, then we have a barbecue at lunchtime and then we cook dinner for maybe
01:0030 people at night.
01:02Younger members of this family are documenting the recipes with the help of social media.
01:06I love posting my food content on there at the moment.
01:10It's my favourite way to share to my friends how I cook.
01:13When it came to the sausages, we posted all over Instagram, everyone saw it and it's a
01:18way of teaching as well.
01:20It's amazing that over the years you'd think there's a possibility that these traditions
01:25would die out but our kids, I see it in my kids and they're the youngest of the family,
01:30they love it.
01:31A love passed on through generations, all thanks to these humble sausages.