✨ Description:
(Excerpted from a New York Times article)
The Amber Gleam of Yakgwa, South Korea’s ‘It’ Cookie
These glossy cookies come from ancient Korea, but their ginger-honey flavors are timeless.
Yakgwa have been enjoyed for more than a thousand years in Korea, but the cookies are seeing a resurgence in popularity thanks to social media.
Ingredients : Flour, starch syrup, white sugar, rape seed oil, starch syrup, specification honey, emulsifier, refined salt, acidity control agent, cinnamon powder.
Recipe: Yakgwa (Honey Cookies)
Perhaps no Korean dish represents the value of honey more than the ancient dessert yakgwa, a deep-fried honey cookie soaked in syrup. Yakgwa (“yak” means medicine and “gwa” means confection) is more than a vessel for coveted sweetness. It connects generations and tells the story of Korea’s reverence for tradition and optimism for the future.
Enjoyed since the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), these treats have seen a resurgence in popularity in South Korea and beyond, thanks in part to videos on YouTube and TikTok, and Korean dramas like the Netflix series “Alchemy of Souls.”
South Korea’s “Generation MZ” (a hybrid of millennials and Gen Zers) are the drivers of this new fixation on the past, more specifically young Koreans who call themselves “halmaenials” (a portmanteau of the words “halmoni,” meaning grandma, and millennial). This nostalgic generation has revitalized not only the culinary custom of yakgwa, but also the market for it.
Koreans have long sought after yakgwa with this sort of enthusiasm. Kings of Korea’s Goryeo dynasty even banned the making and eating of yakgwa because the popularity of its main ingredients — wheat, honey and sesame oil — created scarcity and sent prices soaring.
Traditionally, yakgwa was served only on special occasions, such as festival days like Chuseok and Seollal, birthdays and at life’s four rites of passage, known as gwan-hon-sang-je: coming-of-age (gwan), marriage (hon), death (sang) and the veneration of the dead (je), a custom which many families still practice today.
Today, Koreans enjoy yakgwa outside of those rites of passage, like as an after-school snack or weekday dessert with vanilla ice cream.
Now you can easily and easily enjoy Korean Yakgwa anywhere in the world.
It is a sweet, moist, crispy type of delicacy snack with a refined floral pattern and the taste of sweet honey.
✨ Ingredients:
Flour (wheat/American, Australian, Canadian), starch syrup, Sugar, rapeseed oil [rapeseed oil/produced in Australia, silicon resin], malt extract/produced in Germany, Beef honey/domestic, starch syrup, D-sorbitol solution, emulsifier, refined salt, sodium bicarbonate, chemical flavoring, cinnamon powder
Ingredients subject to change at manufacturer's discretion. For the most complete and up-to-date list of ingredients, please refer to product packaging.
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