Political, economical and social adversities of a nation have had a great influence on the formation of traditional eating habits of a nation, which is fendamental remains of georgraphical charactaristics and climate. So, the culture through eating ha...
Political, economical and social adversities of a nation have had a great influence on the formation of traditional eating habits of a nation, which is fendamental remains of georgraphical charactaristics and climate. So, the culture through eating habits can be remains of a development of nation and its civilization.
Korean traditional menu is classified into two types, common foods and foods for courteeous occasions. People have served noodle as a main dish with the addition of cakes, Kwa Jung, beverages and Juck in case of wedding ceremony or birthday party like Hywae Kap Yeon.
It is known that people have made Kwa Jung since Shilla Dynasty. People had abstained from all kinds of food made of meats, increased grain supplies with the affect of Buddism, enjoyed to make Kwa Jung. Kwa Jung has become indespensable Korean traditional food for ancestor worship, wedding ceremony and other banquets for those reasons.
Kwa Jung can be classified into 7 groups such as Yoomilkwa, Yookwa, Dasik, Junkwa, Kwapyun, Yutganjung and Dang.
This study was considered and analyzed "Yoo-Kwa" Korean traditional cookies. I chearly mentioned about all the remains of their frequency, the ingreadents the changes of cooking method, Junkwa were 68 Kinds in number.
Yookwa includes Kangjung, ganja, bingsakwa, Kamsakwa, Yonsakwa, Yowha. Among them, Kangjung is known as best food. Sanja and bingsakwa are also recorded frequently besides Kangjung.
The records of kamsakwa is being disappared. As a society becomes modernized, people tend to buy Yookwa in the store instead of making it at home because of its complicated and difficult cooking process.