On its way from the East, sugar brought with it its secrets. The Persian and Arabic recipes were combined with ours to create a delightful tasty result.

The Chios mastic, an exclusive product of the island, combined with sugar, gave birth to the spoon sweet – mastic, also known as hyporvrychio (submarine in Greek), a different and more intensely flavored form of vanilla. Since the last century, this kind of mastic has been spread in the Greek Diaspora gentry’s estates and mainly in Constantinople as the welcome sweet by the name of the “White Sweet.” It is still the official treat in the Patriarchate today.