Making cheese, wine or a fire, tanning hides,... you'll find it all here. Concise. On two pages. But for all the knowledge and y'know, recipes, variations, possibilities even two books (for each topic) aren’t sufficient. What you see here is just a handy start on the basics.
The information can not be complete, even not in an extremely heavy encyclopedia of 4,101 pages. We only aim on handy, clear basic skills and knowledge.
You can find in the texts a lot of (baking and melting-) temperatures, product compositions etc. These are useful, but no sanctifying data.

Many you’ll have to fill in with feeling, experience, your own taste and experiments.

‘Experience: what you only get after you needed it.’(Arthur Block)
'Experience allows us to make our mistakes again, but more sophistication.’(Derwood Fincher)


Much also depends on the exact product composition, breeding methods etc.
Or the materials that are used (wood oven, clay oven, computer-controlled electric furnace, metal or stone forms, etc.) and techniques (dry or wet mixing or kneading,...) and times (all inn, or provide rest to rise, to sour, to rot,...), chemical reactions etc. affect the results.

bloemmelkeiWith flour, eggs, milk and sugar I can make a kind of milkshake. Or cook porridge. Or bake flapjacks, crepes or pancakes. Or bread or croissants. Or pie. Or cake, donuts, pizza, spaghetti,...

So it's never enough to throw some ingredients together. You will need to improve, and share with others. This also applies to tanning, make glaze, textile or charcoal, etc.

Every evolution only is possible by what preceded (making iron, oven, electronics...), and is built on knowledge and techniques already acquired. Internet is a convenient channel to share experience and exchange, disseminate movies and solutions and learn from colleagues who you even never have met.

All mentioned techniques are limited to what can be done with manpower, or animal power, wind or hydropower. Means without motors or internal combustion engines. Not even a steam engine.
All used devices and tools work analog, without electrical or digital tools.
Most obvious things are not explained, basic knowledge is expected to be present. As common sence.
There is no herbal or plant guide included. You can find a lot of them elsewhere.
Operations are minimized to what anyone can realize himself with home - garden and kitchen tools, with two hands, common sense and caution.


‘Experience: the archives of our stupidity.’(Leopold Koch)