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Yakgwa โ€” The Honey Cookie That Got Banned

์™•์ด ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณผ์ž ยท ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค์— ์‹ค๋ฆฐ ยท Banned by Kings. Featured in the NYT.

K-Desserts ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ๊ณผ ๊ฟ€ ๊ณ ๋ ค์‹œ๋Œ€ ์•ฝ๊ณผํ‹€ Goryeo Dynasty
์ „ํ†ต ์•ฝ๊ณผ โ€” ๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฝƒ ๋ชจ์–‘ ์•ฝ๊ณผ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—…

Photo: K-Food Stories ยท ๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์— ์žฌ์šด ์ „ํ†ต ์•ฝ๊ณผ โ€” ์ฒœ ๋…„์˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ

"It was so good, the king banned it. Centuries later, it ended up in The New York Times." โ€” Yakgwa.

๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์™•์ด ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค์— ์‹ค๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” ์•ฝ๊ณผ(Yakgwa) ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ.

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๊ด‘์žฅ์‹œ์žฅ ํ•œ๊ณผ ์ง„์—ด๋Œ€ โ€” ์ „ํ†ต ์•ฝ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์Œ“์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ’๊ฒฝ

๊ด‘์žฅ์‹œ์žฅ ํ•œ๊ณผ ์ง„์—ด ยท Traditional confectionery stall, Gwangjang Market

Most people have a version of this: yakgwa on the table, something clicks โ€” oh, that's the thing from the ancestral ceremony. The sweet, dense, vaguely sticky cookie that lived on ritual trays at your grandmother's house. Old-fashioned. For elders. Easily ignored.

Here's what actually happened: yakgwa became so popular during the Goryeo dynasty (918โ€“1392) that it caused nationwide shortages of flour, honey, and sesame oil. Not one but two kings โ€” King Myeongjong and King Gongminwang โ€” had to issue formal bans on making it. The government outlawed a cookie. That's how good it was.

The name tells the story. ์•ฝ (่—ฅ, medicine) + ๊ณผ (่“, confection) = something medicinal enough to eat. In Goryeo, where Buddhism was the state religion and meat was off the ritual table, yakgwa filled the gap. Honey, sesame oil, wheat flour, rice wine, ginger โ€” five ingredients the court already considered therapeutic. It ended up on royal wedding tables, ancestral rites, harvest festivals. The most prestigious confection in Korean history, twice prohibited, because demand simply outstripped the supply of its own ingredients.

์•ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ๋Œ€๊ฐœ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๋‹ค. "์•„, ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์ œ์‚ฟ์ƒ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ." ์ œ์‚ฌ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ์ง‘์–ด ๋จน๋˜, ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์ด ๋จน๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ž. ์ดŒ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ , ๋‹ฌ๊ณ , ๋‚˜์ด ๋“  ์Œ์‹.

๊ทผ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋‹นํ•œ ์Œ์‹ ์ค‘์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋œ ์Œ์‹์ด๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋ ค์‹œ๋Œ€(918~1392), ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๋จน๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ๋ฐ€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ์™€ ๊ฟ€๊ณผ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์™•์ด ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค. ๋ช…์ข…๋„, ๊ณต๋ฏผ์™•๋„ ์•ฝ๊ณผ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๋จน์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ง‰์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณผ์ž. ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ง›์—†์„ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฆ„ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์ด๋‹ค. ์•ฝ(่—ฅ)+๊ณผ(่“) โ€” '์•ฝ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ž'. ๊ณ ๋ ค ๋ถˆ๊ต ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์ œ์‚ฌ์ƒ์— ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฟ€ยท์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ยท์ƒ๊ฐ•ยท์ฒญ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์•ฝ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์› ๋‹ค. ์™•์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ก€, ์ œ์‚ฌ, ์ถ”์„, ํ™˜๊ฐ‘์ž”์น˜. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ํ•ญ์ƒ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Most people have a version of this: yakgwa on the table, something clicks โ€” oh, that's the thing from the ancestral ceremony. The sweet, dense, vaguely sticky cookie that lived on ritual trays at your grandmother's house. Old-fashioned. For elders. Easily ignored.

Here's what actually happened: yakgwa became so popular during the Goryeo dynasty (918โ€“1392) that it caused nationwide shortages of flour, honey, and sesame oil. Not one but two kings โ€” King Myeongjong and King Gongminwang โ€” had to issue formal bans on making it. The government outlawed a cookie. That's how good it was.

์•ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ๋Œ€๊ฐœ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๋‹ค. "์•„, ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์ œ์‚ฟ์ƒ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ." ์ œ์‚ฌ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ์ง‘์–ด ๋จน๋˜, ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์ด ๋จน๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ž. ์ดŒ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ , ๋‹ฌ๊ณ , ๋‚˜์ด ๋“  ์Œ์‹.

๊ทผ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋œ ์Œ์‹์ด๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋ ค์‹œ๋Œ€(918~1392), ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๋จน๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ๋ฐ€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ์™€ ๊ฟ€๊ณผ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ๋ช…์ข…๋„, ๊ณต๋ฏผ์™•๋„ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๋จน์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ง‰์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณผ์ž. ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ง›์—†์„ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค.

์ œ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ช…์ ˆ ์ฐจ๋ก€์ƒ ์œ„ ์•ฝ๊ณผ โ€” ์ „ํ†ต ์˜๋ก€ ์Œ์‹
"Banned by kings. Revived by a small shop in Uijeongbu. Now in The New York Times."

Fast-forward to now: the term yakketing (์•ฝ๊ณผ + ticketing) is trending in Korea, describing the frenzy of clicking for online reservations the moment a popular brand drops. It's been featured in the New York Times, turned up in Manhattan cafes and Tokyo pop-ups, and a new generation of Koreans who never thought twice about it are queuing before dawn to get theirs. A thousand-year-old confection just had its biggest decade yet.

์ง€๊ธˆ ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์Œ์‹์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๋™ ํŒ์—… ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋‹น์ผ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค„์ด ๋Š˜์–ด์„ ๋‹ค. '์•ผ์ผ€ํŒ…' โ€” ์•ฝ๊ณผ์™€ ํ‹ฐ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ํ•ฉ์นœ ์‹ ์กฐ์–ด. ๋‰ด์š• ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ, ๋„์ฟ„ K-ํ‘ธ๋“œ ํŒ์—…์—์„œ ํŒ”๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค ์ฟ ํ‚น ์„น์…˜์—๋„ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒœ ๋…„ ๋œ ๊ณผ์ž๊ฐ€ 2020๋…„๋Œ€์— ์ œ์ผ ํ•ซํ•œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.

Fast-forward to now: the term yakketing (์•ผ์ผ€ํŒ…) is trending โ€” describing the frenzy of clicking for online reservations the moment a popular yakgwa brand drops. It's been in the New York Times, in Manhattan cafes, in Tokyo pop-ups. A thousand-year-old confection just had its biggest decade yet.

์ง€๊ธˆ ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์Œ์‹์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ์—… ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋‹น์ผ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค„์ด ๋Š˜์–ด์„ ๋‹ค. '์•ผ์ผ€ํŒ…' โ€” ์•ฝ๊ณผ์™€ ํ‹ฐ์ผ€ํŒ…์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์–ด. ๋‰ด์š• ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ, ๋„์ฟ„, ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค ์ฟ ํ‚น ์„น์…˜. ์ฒœ ๋…„ ๋œ ๊ณผ์ž๊ฐ€ 2020๋…„๋Œ€์— ์ œ์ผ ํ•ซํ•œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค.

Fast Facts
์ „ํ†ต ์•ฝ๊ณผํ‹€ โ€” ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฝƒ ๋ฌธ์–‘ ๋ชฉํ˜• ์•ฝ๊ณผํ‹€
๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์— ๋‹ด๊ธด ์•ฝ๊ณผ โ€” ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ƒ‰ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—… ๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ
๊ฐœ์„ฑ์ฃผ์•… โ€” ๋‚ฉ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ฐน์Œ€ ๋„๋„›ํ˜• ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์ฃผ์•…

์™ผ์ชฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ: ์ „ํ†ต ์•ฝ๊ณผํ‹€ ยท ๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ยท ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์ฃผ์•…

The Ban That Proves It's Good

Two Goryeo kings banned yakgwa by royal decree. The reason: demand had outpaced the entire country's supply of flour, honey, and oil. Governments don't outlaw food that no one wants.

๊ณ ๋ ค์‹œ๋Œ€ ๋‘ ๋ช…์˜ ์™•์ด ์•ฝ๊ณผ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹จ ํ•˜๋‚˜ โ€” ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ์••๋„ํ•ด์„œ. ๋ง›์—†๋Š” ์Œ์‹์— ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์„œ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

It's Literally Called "Medicine"

์•ฝ๊ณผ (่—ฅ่“) = ์•ฝ (medicine) + ๊ณผ (confection). Honey was considered medicinal in pre-modern Korea, and with ginger, sesame oil, and rice wine in the mix, yakgwa was genuinely treated as something between a dessert and a tonic.

์•ฝ(่—ฅ)+๊ณผ(่“) โ€” '์•ฝ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ž'. ๊ฟ€์„ ์•ฝ์žฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๋ถ™์ธ ์ด๋ฆ„. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์ƒ๊ฐ•ยท์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ยท์ฒญ์ฃผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋จน๋Š” ํ•œ์•ฝ์žฌ ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด๋‹ค.

Yakketing Is Real

Yakketing โ€” yakgwa + ticketing โ€” describes the moment a popular brand's online reservation opens and thousands of people frantically refresh the page, the same way you'd fight for concert tickets. Foreign tourist spending on Korean traditional confections jumped 76.9% year-on-year.

'์•ผ์ผ€ํŒ…'์€ ์•ฝ๊ณผ+ํ‹ฐ์ผ€ํŒ…์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์–ด. ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ์˜ˆ๋งคํ•˜๋“ฏ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๋“ ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ์˜ ํ•œ๊ณผ ์†Œ๋น„๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 76.9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฑด ์ผ์‹œ์  ์œ ํ–‰์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Halmaenial Effect

Halmaenial โ€” "grandmother" + "millennial" โ€” is what Koreans call the wave of young adults rediscovering traditional foods. Yakgwa is the poster child: a ceremonial confection that spent centuries on ancestral rites tables is now the most-saved dessert on Korean Instagram.

'ํ• ๋งค๋‹ˆ์–ผ'์€ ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ+๋ฐ€๋ ˆ๋‹ˆ์–ผ์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์–ด. ์ Š์€ ์„ธ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ†ต ํ•œ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ. ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์Œ์‹์ด ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ๋งŽ์ด ์ €์žฅ๋˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹์ด ๋๋‹ค.

How to Make
โญโญโญ Advanced ์•ฝ 20๊ฐœ ๋ถ„๋Ÿ‰ ์ค€๋น„ 30๋ถ„ + ํŠ€๊น€ 30๋ถ„ + ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ํก์ˆ˜ 10~24์‹œ๊ฐ„
์žฌ๋ฃŒ / Ingredient ๋Œ€์ฒด์žฌ / Substitute
์ค‘๋ ฅ๋ถ„ 200gAll-purpose flour
์ฐน์Œ€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ 30gGlutinous rice flour โ€” Asian grocery
๊ณ„ํ•๊ฐ€๋ฃจ 4gGround cinnamon
์†Œ๊ธˆ 5g ยท ์„คํƒ• 50gSalt ยท Sugar
์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ 60gToasted sesame oil โ€” essential, no substitute
์ฒญ์ฃผ 40gRice wine โ€” sub: dry sherry
๋ฌผ์—ฟ or ์กฐ์ฒญ 450gRice syrup โ€” sub: light corn syrup 70% + honey 30%
๊ฟ€ 50gHoney
๋ฌผ 150g ยท ์ƒ๊ฐ• ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด์ŠคWater ยท Fresh ginger slices
์‹์šฉ์œ  (์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ)Vegetable oil โ€” 130ยฐC ์ €์˜จ ์œ ์ง€์šฉ
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    Make the dough. Sift flour, glutinous rice flour, and cinnamon together. Rub in sesame oil with your fingers until it reaches a sandy texture. Dissolve salt and sugar in rice wine, then add gradually โ€” fold rather than knead. Rest in a bag in the fridge for 30 minutes.

    ๋ฐ˜์ฃฝํ•˜๊ธฐ. ๋ฐ€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ+์ฐน์Œ€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ+๊ณ„ํ•๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ฒด์— ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๊ธˆ+์„คํƒ•์„ ๋…น์ธ ์ฒญ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์น˜๋Œ€์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์‚ด์ง ๋ญ‰์นœ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋‹๋ฐฑ์— ๋„ฃ์–ด ๋ƒ‰์žฅ 30๋ถ„ ํœด์ง€.

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    Shape. Roll dough to 0.7cm thickness. Cut with a yakgwa mold or any flower/diamond cutter. Pierce the back of each piece several times with a toothpick โ€” this is what allows the syrup to absorb properly.

    ์„ฑํ˜•ํ•˜๊ธฐ. ๋ฐ˜์ฃฝ์„ 0.7cm ๋‘๊ป˜๋กœ ๋ฐ€๊ณ  ์•ฝ๊ณผํ‹€ or ๊ฝƒ ๋ชจ์–‘ ์ปคํ„ฐ๋กœ ์ฐ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋’ท๋ฉด์— ์ด์‘ค์‹œ๊ฐœ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ ๋šซ๋Š”๋‹ค โ€” ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ํก์ˆ˜์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ.

  3. 3

    Fry low and slow. Heat oil to 130ยฐC. Add yakgwa โ€” the temperature will drop slightly, keep it at 120โ€“130ยฐC the whole time. When they float, flip. Once golden, raise to 160ยฐC for 30 seconds to finish. Total: 10โ€“15 minutes.

    ์ €์˜จ ํŠ€๊ธฐ๊ธฐ. ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ 130ยฐC๋กœ ์˜ˆ์—ดํ•œ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ์˜จ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š”๋ฐ 120~130ยฐC๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ํŠ€๊ธด๋‹ค. ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋’ค์ง‘๊ณ , ๋…ธ๋ฆ‡ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด 160ยฐC๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ ค 30์ดˆ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ. ์ด 10~15๋ถ„.

๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์— ์•ฝ๊ณผ ํŠ€๊ธฐ๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด โ€” ์ €์˜จ ํŠ€๊น€์œผ๋กœ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ถ€ํ’€์–ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ณผ

Photo: K-Food Stories ยท 130ยฐC ์ €์˜จ์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ โ€” ์•ฝ๊ณผ ํŠ€๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์˜จ๋„ ์œ ์ง€

  1. 4

    Make the syrup. Combine rice syrup, honey, water, and ginger slices. Bring to a boil, skim foam, reduce to low heat.

    ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ. ๋ฌผ์—ฟ+๊ฟ€+๋ฌผ+์ƒ๊ฐ• ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•œ์†Œ๋” ๋“์ธ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฑท์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์•ฝ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์ค„์ธ๋‹ค.

  2. 5

    Soak. Submerge fried yakgwa in warm syrup. Minimum 10 hours, ideally 24. Flip occasionally so every surface absorbs evenly.

    ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์— ๋‹ด๊ทธ๊ธฐ. ํŠ€๊ธด ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์— ๋‹ด๊ทผ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์†Œ 10์‹œ๊ฐ„, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด 24์‹œ๊ฐ„. ๋’ค์ง‘์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ํก์ˆ˜์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค.

  3. 6

    Dry and serve. Remove and let dry for 2โ€“3 hours until the surface sets slightly. The outside firms up; the inside stays dense and honey-soaked. Done.

    ๊ฑด์กฐ ํ›„ ์™„์„ฑ. ๊ฑด์ ธ๋‚ด์„œ 2~3์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด์กฐ. ํ‘œ๋ฉด์ด ์‚ด์ง ๊ตณ์œผ๋ฉด ์™„์„ฑ. ๊ฒ‰์€ ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์†์€ ๊ฟ€์„ ๋จธ๊ธˆ์€ ์ƒํƒœ.

๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์— ๋‹ด๊ทผ ์™„์„ฑ ์•ฝ๊ณผ โ€” ํ˜ธ๋ฐ•์ƒ‰ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ์ด ํ๋ฅด๋Š” ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—…

Photo: K-Food Stories ยท 10~24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฟ€ ์‹œ๋Ÿฝ ํก์ˆ˜ โ€” ์ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์•ฝ๊ณผ๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค

The One Thing That Matters

Don't knead the dough. The moment you develop gluten, the texture is gone โ€” yakgwa turns hard instead of tender. Think of it less as mixing, more as gently persuading the ingredients together.

๋ฐ˜์ฃฝ์„ ์น˜๋Œ€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ „๋ถ€๋‹ค. ๊ธ€๋ฃจํ…์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. '์„ž๋Š”๋‹ค'๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ๋ณด๋‹ค '๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ญ‰์นœ๋‹ค'๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์œผ๋กœ.

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How to Say It

"์•ฝ๊ณผ" = Yak-gwa

Yak rhymes with "rock" โ€” not "yak" the animal
gwa sounds like the "gua" in "guava"
Stress both syllables equally: YAK-GWA

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The beverage Koreans have been drinking for a thousand years. It might already be in your fridge.

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