Korean dagao

In autumn and winter, Korean people often make a kind of small cube rice cake (also called "rice cake"), and the most common one is called "glutinous rice cake", which is refined from glutinous rice. When the Chinese New Year is approaching, every household should prepare a lot of glutinous rice cakes and distribute them to neighbors, relatives and friends. From this custom, the saying of "eating cakes for the New Year" came into being. Cake-making is indispensable for holiday gifts, especially when giving gifts to parents' families. It is said that cake-making also has the meaning of sincerity, love and filial piety. Caking is made of soaked and steamed glutinous rice, put on a chopping board and beaten into a rice cake shape with a mallet, with bean paste stuffing in the middle and white sugar, which is sweet and delicious. Its practice is: to make cakes, you have to go through four processes: washing, steaming, beating and cutting. Wash the glutinous rice first, soak it in clear water for more than ten hours (if you are in a hurry, you can soak it in warm water for a shorter time) until you can crush the rice with your fingers, then take out the rice and drain the water. Put the rice in a steamer and steam it for about half an hour with high fire until it is soft and hard. Put the steamed glutinous rice on the chopping block and turn it over with a mallet. The person who hits can't use too much force at first, so as not to splash the rice grains everywhere; People who turn over should wipe their hands with water and constantly wipe the chopping block, otherwise, the cake will stick to the chopping block and will not turn over. This kind of sticky cake needs to be beaten as evenly as possible. Generally, it is better to beat the rice grains out of sight. Cut the beaten cake into small pieces, and wrap it with bean paste or cooked bean noodles to eat. If you like sweets, you can dip them in sugar. Those who like salt can eat it with salt. This kind of cake is more sticky and delicious than ordinary rice cakes, and its taste is especially fragrant.
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