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Gyuhap chongseo (규합총서, 1809) ferments규합총서

This entry is a historical source, not a single ferment. The Gyuhap chongseo is a household encyclopedia that the scholar Bingheogak Yi compiled in 1809. Its food section, the Jusaui, records how to make jang (fermented soybean pastes and sauces), brew liquor, and make rice dishes, tteok, sweets and side dishes.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Gyuhap chongseo itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Jeupjang / jipjang (vegetable jang fermented in horse manure or compost), the closest documented sauces and condiments ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Gyuhap chongseo.

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Recipe

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Total time across the steps of Jeupjang / jipjang (vegetable jang fermented in horse manure or compost): 7 days – 14 days

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What changes: Steamed soybean and wheat dumplings ferment in straw sacks, then dry

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Jeupjang / jipjang (vegetable jang fermented in horse manure or compost)
Make jeupjang meju and let it ferment
Time
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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In the 1716 recipe, soaked wheat and soybeans are ground, steamed, shaped like knife handles, fermented in straw sacks and dried. A later recipe mixes soybeans with wheat bran in July and layers the meju with pine needles. Output: dried meju dumplings.

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Microbes at work in this step

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Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

This entry is a historical source, not a single ferment. The Gyuhap chongseo is a household encyclopedia that the scholar Bingheogak Yi compiled in 1809. Its food section, the Jusaui, records how to make jang (fermented soybean pastes and sauces), brew liquor, and make rice dishes, tteok, sweets and side dishes.

What makes this one different

Each entry names the books it was drawn from in small characters, and the author added notes of her own, marked as new findings, on what happened when she tried the methods herself.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Gyochimhae (교침해)Kimchi that uses salted fermented fish (jeotgal); one of the earliest jeotgal kimchis in the Joseon cookbook record (Kim and Han, reported).

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The book came down in manuscript and woodblock copies with its author unknown until 1939, when it was found to be the first part of the Bingheogak jeonseo. Its preface is dated to the winter solstice of 1809. The other sections cover sewing, dyeing and weaving (Bongimcheuk), farming and animals (Sangarak), pregnancy, child care, first aid and medicines to avoid (Cheongnanggyeol), and charms (Sulsuryak). Copies include a 29-leaf woodblock edition (Garam collection) and a 68-leaf manuscript at the National Library of Korea, and Jeong Yang-wan published an annotated translation in 1975. It was the most widely read of the manuscript cookbooks.

  1. [encykorea-gyuhap] Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (한국민족문화대백과사전), Academy of Korean Studies, 규합총서 (閨閤叢書), article by Jeong Yang-wan, read 2026-10book
  2. [s1] English Wikipedia, Kyuhap ch'ongsŏwiki
  3. [s2] Kim E.-S., Han M.-J., 규합총서에 수록된 부식류의 조리법에 관한 고찰, J. Korean Soc. Food Culture (abstract via koreascholar)other