Dasik
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| Type | Hangwa |
|---|---|
| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | Korea |
| Main ingredients | grain or other edible seed flour or pollen, and honey |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 다식 |
| Hanja | 茶食 |
| Lit. | tea food |
| RR | dasik |
| MR | tasik |
| IPA | taɕik̚ |
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Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) is a bite-size traditional Korean snack food (hangwa) that is normally accompanied by tea.[1] It can be made by kneading grain or other edible seed flour or pollen with honey, then pressing them into a decorative mould called dasikpan (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.).[2] A dasik plate usually consists of an assortment of dasik of different colours, including green, yellow, pink, black, and white. Typical ingredients include: rice flour, pine pollen, black sesame, chestnut, and soybean.
Varieties
[edit | edit source]- bam dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of steamed and mashed chestnut, or chestnut powder from finely sliced and sun-dried chestnuts
- geomeunkkae dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of toasted black sesame seed powder
- kkae dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of toasted sesame seed powder
- kong dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of steamed and pounded yellow soybean
- pureunkong dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of steamed and pounded green soybean
- songhwa dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of pine pollen
- ssal dasik (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.) – made of steamed, dried, toasted, and then pounded glutinous rice flour
Origin
[edit | edit source]Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Dasik is a food that was introduced to Korea from China during the Song dynasty in China. Dasik became a ceremonial food for weddings during the Joseon period.[3]
Dasikpan
[edit | edit source]Dasik is shaped with a wooden or porcelain press that forms a patterned confectionery. The press is engraved with a design that forms an embossed pattern on the dasik piece. The design would symbolize the family's name in order to wish for a long life or for a special event, like hwangap or 60th birthday or weddings.[4] Press the dough into a dasikpan that has letters, flowers or a geometric pattern is embossed. The surface of dasik has letters, flower patterns, or Chinese letters 壽·福·康·寧 representing long life, luck, health and peacefulness. Two dasikpan forms one set. Its length is 30–60 cm, width is 5–6 cm, and thickness is 2–3 cm.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Koo Chun-sur Dasik: A Unique Delicacy to Accompany Tea Koreana A Quarterly on Korean Art & Culture web: http://koreana.kf.or.kr/view.asp?article_id=4606&lang=English Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. Retrieved on: 7 November 2014
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