『주초침저방』(酒醋沉菹方)의 내용 구성과 필사 연대 연구

Abstract

This paper brings into focus an anonymous manuscript which is titled Juchochimjeo bang and gathers recipes for making alcohol, vinegar, and kimchi. This book is composed of 31 pages and includes a total of 126 recipes. Pages 1 to 29 consist of 120 recipes written in Chinese characters, while pages 30 and 31 contain 5 recipes written in hangul. The author of this manuscript demonstrates an expert knowledge about cooking and making alcohol. Moreover, he annotated some passages, correcting the Chinese characters or the content itself. While the Juchochimjeo bang manuscript is not intact, it does nonetheless have great value in several respects. First of all, based on the characteristics of the paper as well as the way hangul is written, the manuscript can be dated to the 16thcentury. Secondly, the book contains 18 recipes for 16 variations of kimchi, including pickled shrimp kimchi. Thirdly, the five recipes written in hangul the manuscript contains are the oldest hangul recipes. This is evidenced by the use of the three-consonant clusters ‘ㅴ’ and ‘ㅵ’, which cannot be found in any other hangul cookbooks. The two consonant clusters ‘ㅴ’ and ‘ㅵ’ are characteristics of middle Korean. The use of these consonantal compounds proves that the manuscript cannot be dated later than early 17thcentury. Moreover, there are no cases of changes of ‘ㆍ’ (arae-a), palatalization of ‘ㄷ’, or vowel round (e.g. ‘ㅡ’ > ‘ㅜ’) after labial consonants in the Juchochimjeo bang. The characteristics of the paper, the orthography of hangul and the historical linguistic features of this manuscript underpin our claim that this cookbook dates to the 16thcentury, if not, no later than beginning of 17thcentury.