Abstract

"Suck-injulmi" is one of the Korean traditional rice cake made from glutinous rice and mugworts. The optimun conditions for the preparation of "Ssuck-injulmi" were investigated. The best recipe of "Ssuck-injulmi" was 1) adding 240 g (80%) glutinous rice flour and 60 g (20%) raw or boiled mugworts by hand milling, or boiled mugworts after steaming glutinous rice by hand milling. 2) adding 210 g (70%) glutinous rice and 90 g (30%) boiled mugworts by mechanical method. The Moisture of "Ssuck-injulmi" was 43.39%-51.33%. The Hardness of "Ssuck-injulmi" was high in the order of 54,53, 52, 51 and The Cohesiveness was 53, 54,51,52 and The Elasticity was 51,53,54,52 and The Gumminess and The Chewiness were 54, 53, 51, 52 and The Adhesiveness was 52, 53, 51, 54. The value of ′L′ was high in the 52, the value of ′a′ was 54 and the value of ′b′ was 53.

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