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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
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There I picked up a pack of maple pork sausages and a maple and sugar-cured ham hock.
What is Cassoulet? 2009
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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.
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“I traded you to John Stretch for two Bic Gonlits and a sugar-cured ham.”
Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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If you carefully follow these directions you will have delicious sugar-cured hams and bacon.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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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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