mor·ta·del·la 
(môr′tə-dĕlə)
(môr′tə-dĕlə)n.
A heat-cured Italian sausage usually made of ground pork and cubes of pork fat and flavored with wine and spices.
[Italian, feminine diminutive of murtato, seasoned with myrtle berries, from Latin myrtātus, murtātus, from myrtus, myrta, myrtle; see MYRTLE.]