() is a variety of hangwa, or Korean cuisine traditional confectionery. It can be made in either liquid or solid form, as a syrup, taffy, or candy. is made from steamed rice, glutinous rice, glutinous sorghum, maize, sweet potatoes, or mixed grains. It is presumed to have been used before the Goryeo period. The steamed ingredients are lightly fermented and boiled in a large pot called a Gamasot for a long time.[ Yeot at Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]
boiled for a shorter time is called , liquid . This sticky syrup-like is usually used as a [[condiment]] for cooking and for [[coating]] other , or as a dipping sauce for .
If boiled for a longer time, the will solidify when chilled, and is called (). is originally brownish but if stretched (as taffy is prepared), the color lightens. Pan-fried beans, nuts, sesame, sunflower seeds, walnuts, or pumpkin can be added into or covered over the as it chills. Variations of are named for their secondary ingredients, as follows.[ Yeot at Britannica Korea]
Types
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() – made from rice
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() – made with pumpkin, local specialty of Ulleungdo
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() – made from a mixture of rice, corn, and malt
[ Hwanggolyeot at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – covered with (, sesame)
[ Kkaeyeot at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with glutinous millet and chicken
[ Dak yeot at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with glutinous millet and pheasant meat
[ Kkwong yeot at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with glutinous millet and pork
[ Port yeot at Haengboki gadeukhan jip (행복이 가득한 집), March 2009][ Pork yeot National Academy of Agricultural Science]
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with glutinous millet and haneulaegi herb
[ Haneultari at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with barley
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() – local specialty of Jeju Island, made with glutinous millet and garlic
[ Garlic yeot at Doosan Encyclopedia]
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() – local specialty of Sangju, made with dried
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() – made with sesame, walnut, ginger, jujube. It was traditionally used as a tonic for sick people.
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() – made from corn.
The word yeot as slang
The Korean phrase "eat " () has adopted a vulgar meaning in recent years. The phrase is comparable to the English term "
fuck you". According to one account, the phrase originated from a middle-school entry exams scandal of 1964. One of the multiple choice questions asked in the exam: "Which of the following ingredients can be used instead of
yeot oil (; barley malt) to make ?" The correct answer was
diastase, but another one of the multiple choices was
Korean radish juice, which many people argued was also a correct answer. The parents of the students whose grades suffered from this result held demonstrations and protests in front of government education bureaus and offices, holding up made with radish juice and yelling to the officials to "eat ".
[ Kim Mi Hyeong (김미형), Man and Language (인간과 언어) p220, PJ Book, Seoul, 2005. ]
The Phallus shape of raw had also led the candy to be used as a euphemism for penis as early as the sixteenth century.[ EXPLAINING WHY THE KOREAN SOCCER TEAM WAS PELTED WITH TOFFEE CANDY, Noonchi ]
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