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Folklore - Ancient crafts
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Raki production or kazánisma
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| Introduction | The social surroundings | The production |
| Rakí
or
tsikoudiá,
as
it is also called in Cretan, has always been not only a pleasant but also
a necessary and handy ingredient in everyday life. Most people probably
know the inspiring effect, but in addition to that raki was used as a
healing medicine for external use at common-cold symptoms - especially protoráki
which is the first liter of a distillation, and which is considerably
stronger than the rest. It is also still a splendid disinfectant for the
cleaning of wounds. It has moreover been used as a binding material fixing
the gold leaf to the icons, because raki evaporates easily and leaves only
the sticky sweet stuff behind.
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