Kimchi House: November 2016

Dear friends, share with you these Korean cookies with you.
In Korean, this is called "Maejakgwa"/ 梅雀菓/매작과.

We can use the green tea powder, pumpkin powder etc as colouring. Maejakgwa (Korean: 매작과) or tareagwa is a variety of hahngwa, or Korean traditional confection, consisting of wheat flour, vegetable oil, cinnamon, ginger juice, " jocheong," and pine nuts. It is also categorized as a form of yumilgwa.

Hangwa is a general term for Korean traditional confectionery. Common ingredients in hangwa are grain flour, honey, "yeot," sugar, fruit .

韩菓（韓語：한과／韓菓，或조과／造菓）是韩国传统糖果糕點的泛称，一般由谷物、面粉、蜂蜜、糖、水果等原料制作，主要包括茶食（다식）、江米條、油菓、药菓、熟实果、果片、饴、正果、馒头菓、梅雀菓等，在韓國通常搭配傳統茶飲一同食用，也是在傳統節日祭拜不可或缺的供品和韓國人過年送禮的禮品之一。韓國 京畿道 抱川市建有韩菓文化博物馆介绍韩菓的历史由来、制作过程等。

Types of hangwa

Yumilgwa (유과): made by frying and kneading.

- Yakgwa, literally "medicinal confectionery" is a flower shape biscuit made of honey, sesame oil and wheat flour.
Suksilgwa (숙실과), made by boiling fruits, ginger, or nuts in water and then reformed into the original fruit's shape, or other shapes.
Gwapyeon (과편), jelly-like confection made by boiling sour fruits, starch, and sugar.
Dasik (다식), literally "tea snack." It is made by kneading rice flour, honey, and various types of flour from nuts, herbs, sesame, or jujube.
Yeot (엿): a Korean traditional candy in liquid or solid form made from steamed normal rice, glutinous rice, glutinous kaoliang, corn, sweet potatoes or mixed grains. The steamed ingredients are lightly fermented and boiled in a large pot called sot (솥) for a long time.
Yeot gangjeong (엿강정) : Pine nuts, peanuts, popped rice, walnuts, roasted beans or sesame seeds rolled in yeot mixture
Jeonggwa (정과) : Sugarized fruit, ginger, lotus root, carrot or ginseng
Mandugwa (만두과) : stuffed with a sweetened filling and coated with jocheong, or liquid candy.

(source: wikipedia)

Sift the flour, mix the flour with the water( add in the green tea powder . pumpkin respectively),ginger juice, salt. Add in water gradually and knead the dough. The more you knead, the better it is.

Flatten and roll the dough, roll the dough to 0.2 cm thickness, cut the dough by 5 cm x 1.5 cm each~~

Fold the dough and cut the lines as shown in the pictures respectively~~

Open the dough , you can see the lines as shown as above~~

Flip the dough through the center of the dough and make the shape as shown above~~

Fry the dough till well done and garnish it with syrup/pine nuts powder ~~

Summary:
1. Sift the flour, mix the flour with the water( add in the green tea powder . pumpkin respectively),ginger juice, salt. Add in water gradually and knead the dough. The more you knead, the better it is.

2. Cover the dough with a damp cloth. Let it proves for 30 minutes.

3. Sprinkle the work surface lightly with flour.

4. Flatten and roll the dough, roll the dough to 0.2 cm thickness, cut the dough by 5 cm x 1.5 cm each~~

5. Fold the dough and cut the lines as shown in the pictures respectively~~

6. Open the dough , you can see the lines as shown as above~~

7. Flip the dough through the center of the dough and make the shape as shown above~

8. Fry the dough till well done and garnish it with syrup/pine nuts powder.

(p/s: one cup of flour add in at least 1/3 cup of water( add in green tea powder or pumpkin powder), please adjust the water accordingly, a pinch of salt, one table spoon of ginger juice, )