Can you please tell me the area in Illinois as My Ancestors came to
Downers Grove now a suburb of Chicago. This is too much of a
coincidence---Bob
Many German immigrants settled first in the Chicago area and spread out from there; my ancestors were in Summit, then the area now just west of O'Hare and then came south to Iroquois County when the railroad began to sell off the land it didn't use.
I remember the hog's head (and various other parts) being on the porch in a galvanized tub at the end of butcher day, but my mother did not make the sausage. I suspect those parts went across the road to my uncle's house for his wife to take care of. My mother's family is Ost Friesen, while Dad's family is Hannoverian.
My husband, by the way, is from Pennsylvania Dutch country (not his ancestry, just where he grew up). Is scrapple pretty much the same thing with corn meal instead of oats? Also fried and served with butter and syrup.
Loretta