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salt-cured

salt-cured

1 3.8
Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad
  • adjective
  • /sɔlt kɜrd/
translation icon : curado en sal
  • It is best served with breakfast (grits, eggs, salt-cured ham slices, bacon, and biscuits), but can be eaten cold right out of the package.
  • salt-cured anchovy
  • salt-cured prosciutto

Examples

  • She has left spoon bread, collards, and slabs of our own salt-cured ham for my supper.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I know it's difficult, and I am certainly guilty of the occasional steak or, as mentioned, salt-cured bacon purchase.

    Blog text (25)

  • I have a source of salt-cured pork, without nitrates/trites.

    Blog text (25)

  • The dish included slices of salt-cured salmon, adding a rich flavor to the meal.

  • At the market, I bought a beautiful piece of salt-cured ham, perfect for sandwiches.

  • For breakfast, we enjoyed scrambled eggs topped with salt-cured pork belly.

Synonyms

salted
vssalt-cured
1.0

Food preserved with salt so it lasts longer

is the same meaning but named as a compound adjective form
brine-cured
vssalt-cured
6.7

Meat or other food is soaked in salty water to keep it from spoiling

is preserved by direct dry salt treatment rather than by soaking
cured
vssalt-cured
3.2

Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying

focuses only on preservation by salt treatment rather than multiple methods

How Salty

salt-cured
1 3.8
lox
  • US
9 8.2

Surface Forms

salt-cured positive

Morphology

salt-cured = cured (transparent) = salt + cure + ed

The adjective is formed by combining 'salt' with 'cured' to indicate the method of curing; the relationship is directly inferable.

Etymology

Salt-cured combines salt and cured; people used salt to draw out water and keep food from going bad, so it helped food last on long trips. That's why salt-cured means food that is 'preserved' by salt.