Lunenburg cure

English

Noun

the Lunenburg cure (uncountable)

1. A kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.
   • 1918, Canada. Dept. of Fisheries, Annual Report, page 19:

     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  […]

   • 1934, Ruth Fulton Grant, The Canadian Atlantic Fishery, page 32:

     [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 […]

   • 1978, Harold Innis, Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

     It 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 ...

   • 1993, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh, Drink in Canada: Historical Essays, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 167:

     The Maritime Merchant lamented the long-term damage to the salt-fish trade, as the absence of the "Lunenburg cure" from the fish markets […]

   • 2011, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 128:

     “The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.