Korean sweets ２

 

Miyoko Matsuzaki

 

     　Good afternoon everyone!!  This time I would like to talk about Korean sweets　part2. There are many delicious sweets in South Korea still more. I would like to introduce many sweets this time also.

 

        Firstly, I would like to talk about Kulutare. Kulutare is South Korean tradition court confectionery. These sweets are also called yonnsuyomu. Originally it has been loved 2000 years or more before with the confectionery of the China origin. These sweets are kinds of a kneading candy. These sweets bundle 10,000 or more filar white things which used powder of honey, malt, and corn as materials. To the dough, sesame, a walnut, pine nuts, a peanut, an almond, soybean flour, etc. are covered, and it is made a form like a cocoon. Crunchy texture is characteristic. Since it was offered as what symbolizes a king's long life and a fortune in the Korean monarchical age, it is classified as a court dish. Eventually, two corded dough becomes the shape of thin thread exceeding 16,384. The process until it makes dough into the shape of 16,384 threads is often demonstrated at stalls, such as Insa-dong in Seoul, and Myondong. The situation can be said expert workmanship. There is also a store which is performing this performance in English, Chinese, Japanese, etc. for foreign tourists. Kulutare is sweets in which a cooking process is very interesting.

 

        Yakka is traditional South Korea confectionery. In South Korea, it is loved from ancient times as the snack in every day, and an offering thing of the performance of ancestral rites. It can make easily also at home. It sells also at the supermarket regardless of the season. Most of these sweets has imitated the flower. They are pretty sweets.

     

       Hottoku is popular South Korean sweets. In South Korea, it is mainly sold at the stall of a between-meal snack system, etc. in winter. It is a cheap and popular confectionery sweet. If it says at a word, it is in it like the hot cake containing sweet been jam. These sweets are like "oyaki" of Japan. "Hottoku" means the rice cake (tokku) of 胡 (= China). The Chinese merchant who has immigrated at the end of the 19th century produced these sweets. In South Korea, it is loved widely. There are various variations in this sweet. Dough has a thing using corn powder, and a thing which mixed green tea. The taste of inner bean jam is also various.

 

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