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This recipe does have some substantial differences in that cheese is not an ingregient and the dough is salty rather than sweet and it does take a variety of hams such as Prosciutto, half-cured ham, bacon, “Chourico”, pork ternderloin meat previously braised in dried pepper flakes, pimento paste and butter.
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Unlike the health resorts of the Mediterranean, Algeria, Madeira, and Florida, where great summer heats or an unhealthy season compel half-cured invalids to depart in the spring, to return the next winter with fresh colds to begin the half-cure process again, people can live here until they are completely cured, as the climate is never unhealthy, and never too hot.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.
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Whalebone had been formed fresh into the frames of the catcher boats: rotting marrow added to the blubber's effluvium, as did the half-cured hides of the hull.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Only half-cured, the leather was stiff and thick enough that the muscles of the hermit's forearms bulged as he twisted it into a knot.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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A depressed skull fracture had been bandaged with only a single strip of fine-weave cloth, and not even so much as a half-cured hide had been spread over her to keep out the chill.
ARMAGEDDON SKY L. A. GRAF 1997
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A good day's strong sun will then half cure it, and by subsequent exposure the produce takes another stage, and gradually loses the half-cured, and assumes a blue colour; and when the produce is properly cured and fit for the mill, not the slightest dark spot will be perceptible in the bean, but it will exhibit a horny blue colour.
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After coffee has been half-cured, the putting it up hot at an early period of the day has the effect of curing it all night.
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The bean is perfectly white till the silver skin starts; it then begins gradually to assume the dark, or what is called the half-cured appearance.
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Her only food was the wormy bread and half-cured pork which was served out to the soldiers, and her drink was brackish water from the ditch that surrounded the earth-work.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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