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Korean soy sauce vs Japanese sauce 고추장의 역사,Korea Agra food 1995,고려대 이철호 교수 By 관리자 / 2018-07-13 AM 10:24 / 조회 : 317회

Korean soy sauce vs Japanese sauce 고추장의 역사,Korea Agra food 1995,고려대 이철호 교수

Lee Cherl-ho
Department of Food Technology Korea University


Meju, the material of Kochujang, dehydrated under the eaves.

with tomato ketchup for European people. In fact, Koreans living in America and Europe prefer to put Kochujang on hamburger and sand-wich instead of tomato ketchup. Meat/fish and vegetable stew seasoned by Kochujang is the most popular side dish enjoyed by Korean at least once in a day.
History of kochujang
 The first record on Kochujang is found in chungbo-sanlimkyungje wirt-ten by Yoo Chung-im in 1765. It describes several varieties of fermented soybean products, including Jeubjang and Chongkukjang besides Kochujang, and their processing methods practiced in Korea at that time. Ac-cording to this book, Kochujang was made by mixing Meju powder, gluti-nous rice powder and red pepper pow-der in the ratio of 10:1:0. 3and then by adding good quality of Kanjang soy sauce, to make paste having desired consistency. It was put into an carthen jar and placed in the sunny place for ageing. It says that too much glutinous rice produces objectional sour taste, and advises not to use too much red pepper. However, today we use much more red pepper than that was suggested in this book.
 The fermentation starter, Meju, is appeared to be made specially for Kochujang in the old days. Kyuhabehongseo written by Madam Binghurgak Lee (1759-1824) recom-mends to mix 10 parts of cooked soybean with 2 parts of rice cake dur-ing pounding for the molding of Kochujang Meju ball. Mixing of rice, barley or wheat to soybean for Meju preparation is often found in the old Korean literatures, such as Kuhwangchwalyo written in 1554. It has been faded out during the last 2-3centuries in Korea by unknown reason, but maintained in Japan.
 It is said that red pepper was first introduced into Korea during Yimjin-Oeran, the Japanese Korean war in the 17th Century. However, the use of fermented hot soybean paste exsisted in Korea long before that time. Domundaejak written by Hur Kyun in 1611 describes Choshi, a hot bean paste added with Choncho, the hot spice widely used in Korea before the introduction of red