A Bibliographical Study on the Processing Methods of Samhaeju

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Information on brew time for Samhaeju can get from the 26 kinds of classical literature, which deal with Samhaeju. Usually, Samhaeju is brewed on any day of the Boar in January of the lunar calendar. However, any day of the Boar in a year seams to be possible for the brew time. In the first step of the manufacture procedure, nonglutinous and glutinous rice are used with the same propontion. The nonglutious and glutinous rice ratio become higher on the 2nd and the 3rd step than in the 1st step. The amount of water adding to the Samhaeju-base is increased step by step. In the first step, processing type of the cereal is predominantly gruel type, which is followed by rice calce. In the 2nd step, rice cake and doughnut-type rice cake are more common type than gruel type. In the 3rd step, processing type of the cereal in Samhaeju is mostly steamed water-soaked rice. Companing China and Japan with Korea, there is difference in the processing types of the cereal. They use steamed water-soaked rice in any step. Nuruk(fermenter) is added to the cold processed cereal in the first step.