Livestock and agricultural activities in Mitsero during the Ottoman rule

The community had a lot of cattle grazing freely. The story goes that in the area of Agioi Iliofoti, there were large stone milking places where the goats and sheep used to go on their own to be milked. They would make halloumi, anari, cheese, trahana; they were all of excellent taste because they were fed with savory and other wild bushes. The dairy products were kept in large clay pots for home use or were sold at fairs to the residents of the lower valley, who were mostly producing agricultural products. Women would cooperate with each other on milk, i.e. 5-6 of them would contribute to fill a hartzin ( a large sized cauldron) with milk and accordingly share the halloumi that was produced. They would take turns in producing it. Milk was measured using the lid of the copper pot. They would use rennet from a pig's stomach to curdle the milk (Moudourou, 200? 18).