[3] Some of her early works included "Ode to the Saint", "Sound of Rain", and "Crane White Hair", all of which showed a mature vision of life and impressed her father.

Later, they built a house in a mountain village in North Gyeongsang Province named Seokgye, famous for being the home town of the novelist Yi Mun-yol.

Often credited as the first cookbook in the Hangul script,[9][11][12] it contains recipes and instructions for using utensils to cook 146 dishes, including beverages, dumplings, meats, noodles, seafood, soups, and vegetables.

[12] Jang was explicit in her instructions of food and drink preparation, showing that she had knowledge of cooking processes, which made her cookbook unique from previously created volumes.

[9] Jang died on 7 July 1680[13] in Seokbochon village in Yeongyang County of the Gyeongsang Province,[7] Her cookbook was not printed in her lifetime, but was found in the home of Yi Karam (Korean: 李葛菴) in 1960 and subsequently published in its entirety by Kim Sayŏp.

The Ministry of Tourism has offered tours of significant sites mentioned and related to the book and it has a dedicated page as part of the Google Cultural Institute.