Truffled Sausages (Saucisses aux Truffes)

Ingredients

• 2 pounds lean pork
• 1 pound pork fat
• 0.25 pound truffles
• 1.5 ounces salt
• cayenne pepper
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon mace
• 1 dessertspoon savoury herbs
• 1–2 glasses Madeira
• sausage skins

Instructions

1. Combine the lean pork and fat with the minced truffles, salt, cayenne or white pepper, nutmeg, mace, and powdered savoury herbs.
2. Test a small morsel of the mixture and adjust any of the seasonings to taste.
3. If preparing for immediate use and desired, moisten the meat with one or two glassfuls of Madeira.
4. Stuff the mixture into delicately clean sausage skins.