Meanings
- uncountableA kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.
The Maritime Merchant lamented the long-term damage to the salt-fish trade, as the absence of the "Lunenburg cure" from the fish markets […]
1993, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh, Drink in Canada: Historical Essays, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 1674 more examples
This is necessary in order not only to hold the markets which the Lunenburg cure has had control over many years, but also to enter new markets and […]
1918, Canada. Dept. of Fisheries, Annual Report, page 19[A report] investigating the Fisheries of the Maritime Provinces in 1928 stated : There is no doubt that if the Lunenburg cure were better prepared, markets could be broadened[…]
1934, Ruth Fulton Grant, The Canadian Atlantic Fishery, page 32It handled the light-salted Gaspé cure, the medium Nova Scotia cure, the heavy-salted Lunenburg cure, and the Canadian Labrador cure, and used them to ...
1978, Harold Innis, Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN“The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.
2011, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 128
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