大学いも Daigaku-imo ~ Sweets strange name.

Daigakuimo is a Japanese sweet that is fried sweetpotato coated with molasses.。
It is popular because it can to make easily at home,and nutritional value is so rich.

The name of Daigakuimo,literal translation of this is, University potato.
Why would a name like this?






For the name of the University potato, there are several theories.

One of them.
Because college students were eating in favor of it.
They lived in Kanda in Tokyo.
This university, there is opinion that it is the Tokyo University or Waseda University.


Another theory.
Students of the Tokyo University make Daigakuimo and sold it for subsidize the tuition.
The epoch that Daigakuimo was created is about 90 years ago,there were a lot of students who are in trouble in school expenses.


Because it can easily make at home, I will introduce the recipes.

1.Wash well the sweetpotato, cut to the size that it is easy to eat without the skin peeled off.
2.Fry it.The oil temperature is 140-160℃.
3.If color changes, you can be taken out of the oil.
4.Next,put sugar, sake, a bit of soy sauce to pot, hang it on a low heat.
5.When sugar melted, let dress fried sweetpotato with it.
6.To Finally, sprinkled with sesame. The finished.


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