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Often the tea spoon sweets with a snaps of raki make a meal complete.

The need for sweet flavors is evident also in Cretan diet. Honey and home-made spoon sweets satisfy that need! Honey varieties are based on the blossoms pollen or the trees juices the bees collect. Thus, there is flower-honey (soft flavor with light colour and thickness), thyme-honey (more spicy and light colour) and pine-honey (stronger flavor, less sweet with darker color). Spoon sweets in Greece are numerous as they are made of grape seeds, cherry, orange/bergamot peels, whole fruits (mandarin, fig), rose petals, and fresh nuts (pistachio, walnut). The sirup is a natural preservant. On Crete, kserotigana is a traditional sweet made of flour, raki and water, which is deep fried thin stripes of dough. Another popular sweet with dough, honey and also feta, is sfakiani pita which may look like a pancake but it’s taste it totally divine.