Cereal cakes
Cereal cakes, a traditional dish of Korea, are delicious in taste and highly nutritive.
It is a custom for Koreans to prepare cereal cakes for holidays and other celebrations, including birthday and wedding ceremonies.
Korea has a long history of making cereal cakes.
It is proved by the facts that earthenware steamers were discovered from the remains of the Bronze Age.
Records of cereal cakes became apparent from the days of the Three Kingdoms.
Recipes for cereal cakes improved markedly in the days of Palhae and Later Silla, and the food became more diverse in variety during the periods of Koryo and feudal Joson dynasties.
Cereal cakes are prepared with either cereals or their powders and added with other ingredients.
And according to how they are made they are divided into chalttok (glutinous rice cake), solgittok (steamed rice cake), cereal cakes, songphyon (cake steamed on a layer of pine needles), steamed rice cake with yeast, kyongdan (cereal cake dumplings), jonbyong (pancakes), fancy cakes and so on.
It is a custom for Koreans to prepare cereal cakes for holidays and other celebrations, including birthday and wedding ceremonies.
Korea has a long history of making cereal cakes.
It is proved by the facts that earthenware steamers were discovered from the remains of the Bronze Age.
Records of cereal cakes became apparent from the days of the Three Kingdoms.
Recipes for cereal cakes improved markedly in the days of Palhae and Later Silla, and the food became more diverse in variety during the periods of Koryo and feudal Joson dynasties.
Cereal cakes are prepared with either cereals or their powders and added with other ingredients.
And according to how they are made they are divided into chalttok (glutinous rice cake), solgittok (steamed rice cake), cereal cakes, songphyon (cake steamed on a layer of pine needles), steamed rice cake with yeast, kyongdan (cereal cake dumplings), jonbyong (pancakes), fancy cakes and so on.
Glutinous rice cake is made by steaming glutinous rice and pounding it with a mallet.
Glutinous rice cake made with the glutinous rice produced in the Yonbaek area of the country has been most famous.
According to Haedongjukji, an old historical document, the cake made with glutinous rice was very soft and the cake roasted and served with honey was the most delicious food.
Glutinous rice cake is often dressed with either soy bean, white or red adzuki bean, mung bean and sesame flour or honey.
