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Food on Dano
Surichwitteok
Surichwi is oval-shaped like other
kinds of saussurea in general, but the back of its
leaves looks white, and its dried leaves burn well
and have high durability. Raw Surichwi is patted and
mixed with nonglutinous rice powder as what is done
with mugwort in making Ssuktteok so as to make rice
cake
Aengdu
Hwachae (Cherry Punch)
The cherries are ripened first among
various fruits, and the Dano season is the best time
for them. Thus, on that season, they were offered up
to the Royal Court, and were presented to the royal
families' ancestral shrines and sanctuaries, and were
used to make rice cake or Hwachae. Aengdupyeon (Cherry
rice cake) is made by the process that after steaming
cherries slightly and sieving them with a big-holed
strainer to gather only the flesh of them, boil it down
and harden it adding starch to it. And serve it with
raw chestnuts. After cleaning up cherries picked and
removing the seeds of them, put them in sugar or honey
for a while and before eating it, put them in Omija
tea with some kernels of pine nuts.