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Bradenham|ˈbræd(ə)nəm|
[Trade-name.]
Applied attrib. to a dark, sweet-cured ham. Also ellipt.
1906Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 7/2 Next door the Wiltshire Bacon Curing Company shows a decided novelty in ‘Bradenham’ hams and chaps. They are perfectly black, a result achieved, it is said, by curing with treacle. 1927D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death i. vi. 68 Tell me how it comes that your little waitress and her railway clerk come down to Epping Forest to regale themselves on sandwiches made from coal-black, treacle-cured Bradenham ham? 1959Hist. Wiltshire (V.C.H.) IV. 223/1 In 1897 the company [sc. the Wiltshire Bacon Curing Co. Ltd.] took over the Bradenham Ham Co. and since it was wound up in 1921 ‘Bradenham’ hams, cured by a secret recipe, have been manufactured by the Wiltshire Bacon Co. 1960House & Garden Apr. 111/2 There are counters of hams including Bradenhams (the coal-black ham). |