Kyung-dan is a traditional food of Korea.  It’s a rice-cake dumpling.  Most holidays of Korea, people eat the kyung-dan, but each holiday they eat different styles of kyung-dan or rice-cake. 

When we make kyung-dan, we might need a lot of helpers.  I think it should be the whole family to work on it.  But now Korea has factories for making rice cakes and we can buy them at any supermarket.  Also, they’re good to eat with honey, but don’t forget the water because sometimes it should be kill yourself.

My country has a lot of stories with kyung-dan.  one of the stories is about “sun and the moon” where they came from?  A long time ago, one of the sellers of kyung-dan, she had two kids, a son and a daughter.  One day she was killed by the tiger.  And then the tiger knew she had kids, so the tiger found her kids.  Then he tried to eat them, but god helped the kids.  So the kids became the sun and the moon.

 



18 lbs of rice flour
water (1 water: 3 flour)
1 cup of black sugar
dust (bean, black sesame)



 

 

big wood hammer
mortar of stone





 

 

Ready to rice and grains makes powder. 

Put some water into the rice powder (proportion about 1:3) and then make a dough.

Put dough into the mortar of stone.  Then we have to hit that with the big wood hammer about ten times.

After that, we call theat dough Dduck, take out just a little bit of Dduck for put into the black sugar.  Then make a ball.

Finally, cover that ball with dust.