Categories: Breakfast 
      Yield: 1 servings 
  
      2 c  Milk 
      2 md Onions, chopped 
      2 md Carrots, chopped 
      1 lg Celery stalk with leaves, 
           -chopped 
      6    Fresh parsley sprigs 
      7 lg Shallots, minced 
      1 lg Garlic clove, crushed 
      2    Bay leaves, broken 
  3 1/2 ts Salt 
      2    Whole cloves 
    1/2 ts Freshly ground white 
           -pepper 
    1/8 ts Freshly grated nutmeg 
           -Pinch of dried thyme, 
           -crumbled 
      1 tb Butter 
     12 oz Boneless lean center loin 
           -pork, trimmed of all fat, 
           -cut into 1-inch chunks and 
           -well chilled 
      9 oz Fresh pork fat cut from 
           -loin, fresh bacon or 
           -fatback, well chilled 
      3 md Eggs 
      6 tb All-purpose flour 
    1/4 c  Tawny Port 
    1/4 ts Minced garlic 
  2 1/2 tb Currants, minced 
      9    Feet sausage casings, 
           -rinsed inside and out, 
           -soaked in 
           -cold water 1 hour and 
           -rinsed again 
    1/4 c  (1/2 stick) butter 
  
  Bring milk, onions, carrots, celery, parsley, 3 shallots, garlic clove, bay 
  leaves, salt, cloves, pepper, nutmeg and thyme just to boil in heavy 
  4-quart 
  saucepan over medium heat.  Remove from het, cover and let stand 30 
  minutes. 
  Refrigerate until mixture is well chilled, about 2 hours. 
  Meanwhile, melt 1 Tbsp butter in heavy small skillet over low heat.  Add 
  remaining 4 minced shallots.  Cover and cook until very soft, stirring 
  occasionally, about 15 minutes.  Puree with on/off turns in processor with 
  pork, pork fat, eggs, flour, Port and 1/4 tsp garlic until smooth.  Strain 
  milk into processor, pressing down on solids to extract as much liquid as 
  possible. Blend into puree.  Transfer to large bowl.  Stir in currants. 
  Refrigerate 1 to 8 hours.  (If processor has small capacity, puree in 
  batches.) 
  Cut sausage casings into 3-foot lengths.  Tie knot at one end of each. 
  Gather 1 piece around tip of pastry bag fitted with 1/2-inch plain tip. 
  Spoon pork mixture into pastry bag, pressing down to prevent air pockets. 
  Pipe mixture into casing, twisting casing every 6 inches to create 
  individual 
  sausages.  Tie know at end of casing.  Repeat with remaining pork and 
  casings.  Tie twists in sausage with string. 
  Bring 8 quarts water to boil in stockpot.  Remove from heat and add 
  sausages. 
  Return pot to heat, adjusting as necessary to maintain water just below 
  simmer (180 F).  Cook until sausages are firm to touch, 20 minutes, turning 
  occasionally.  Cool in cold water to retain plumpness.  Cut into individual 
  links.  (Can be prepared ahead to this point.  Wrap and refrigerate up to 3 
  days or freeze up to 2 months.) 
  Melt butter in heavy skillet over medium heat.  Lightly brown sausages on 
  all 
  sides, about 8 minutes total.  Serve hot. (Sausage can also be grilled.)