Korean Choˇchgal is a kind of salted, fermentive food mainly made of fish in our country.
It has been a suitable side´dish for the diet of rice. It has made use of an accompaniment of wine, seasoning, food of ceremony and a folk remedy. There were various kinds of Choˇchgal and various way of for preparation. For a long time it has developed in how to cook and how to eat.
Nowaday, it has lessened to use Choˇchgal.
In this thesis, the kinds of Choˇchgal and the reference frequency to them, the material, the measuring unit of material, the making terms, and the cooking kitchen utensils are studied out of the 86 books published in Korea from 1200 to 1984.
1. It was classified Choˇch, Sikhae, and Oˇyukchang as how to cook.
2. There were 147 kinds of Choˇchgal, 100 kinds of Choˇch, 40 kinds of Sikhae and 7 kinds of Oˇyukchang in our traditional documents.
3. Materials were classified into main material, sub-material, and seasonings. As main materials there were fish, internals of fish, spawn, flesh, salt and soy sauce. As sub-materials there were seasoning, flavor, vegetables and cereals.
4. There were 41 kinds of measuring units. Of them, 17 kinds are for volume, 9 kinds are for quantity, 3 kinds are for length, and 12 kinds are for the rest.
5. There were 52 kinds of cooking kitchen utensils. They used mainly a sieve and pebbles. To store Chochkal a kind of jar, a woodenware and a clay ware were used. To shelter it from the wind, they sealed it with leaves and oiled paper. But few of them are used nowaday.
6. There were 209 kinds of cooking terms. Of them, 35 kinds are for the washing process, 51 kinds are for the preparing process, 38 kinds are for the making process, 25 kinds are for the fermenting process, 24 kinds are for the keeping process, and 36 kinds are for the eating(using) process.
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