Local Products – Tray desserts & Spoon sweets
The traditional sweets prepared and offered during festivals are of excellent quality. There are tray desserts like baklava or “spitiko phyllo” (homemade pastry), kourabiedes (almond shortbread cookies), ravani (semolina cake), halva (sweet confection), melachrini, and sponge cake. Honey, one of the most nutritious substances, is used in these sweets, giving them their aroma. Naturally, there […]
Local Products – Bread
In Tzoumerka, the type of bread depended on the flour (wheat or corn) and the method of kneading and baking. The main bread, named “bobota”, was made of corn flour and it prevailed over wheat bread until 1975. Bobota bread, depending on the variety of corn used (dry or irrigated fields), could be either soft […]
Local Products – Tsipouro
A popular alcoholic beverage. It is made from grapes, berries, dried fruits, and, of course, it has the taste characteristics of the material that went into the still.
Local Products – Cornelian cherry liquor
Cornelian cherries (“Krana”) come from bushes that grow in mountainous areas and produce oval-shaped fruits, approximately 1.5-3 centimeters in size, which are deep orange when mature. The fruit is harvested and placed in large jars with sugar and alcohol (locally, they use tsipouro, a Greek distilled spirit).
