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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Cured with a preparation of sugar, salt, and nitrate.

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Examples

  • There I picked up a pack of maple pork sausages and a maple and sugar-cured ham hock.

    What is Cassoulet? 2009

  • I have eleven more things I can try to do with salmon now although probably, a sugar-cured salmon with beet sorbet comes at the bottom of the list.

    11 more things to do with salmon | Seattle Metblogs 2005

  • “I traded you to John Stretch for two Bic Gonlits and a sugar-cured ham.”

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • Next came enormous sugar-cured country hams and platters of fried chicken, oozing cholesterol and calories, and whole sea bass, stuffed with corn bread dressing and grilled to perfection.

    Priceless Mariah Stewart 1999

  • Next came enormous sugar-cured country hams and platters of fried chicken, oozing cholesterol and calories, and whole sea bass, stuffed with corn bread dressing and grilled to perfection.

    Priceless Mariah Stewart 1999

  • Father Gutstadt's face is a balloon full of blood, a smooth red bladder with giblets for eyes and for a nose a round, veiny, sugar-cured lump that could have been pruned from the entrails of a bull.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • For sugar-cured hams we append the best recipe we have ever used, though troublesome.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • The old man glanced through the open door at the dinner-table, and his eyes rested lovingly upon a large sugar-cured ham, from which several slices had been cut, exposing a rich pink expanse that would have appealed strongly to the appetite of any hungry Christian.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • If you carefully follow these directions you will have delicious sugar-cured hams and bacon.

    Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

  • If you were good the gods would make you a sugar-king in the world to come, and Colorado was to be financially sugar-cured in the sweet by-and-by.

    A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel S. G. Bayne

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