Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better...

 So... I found this YouTube channel, "How to Make Everything", and... er...

Well. 

OK, then. 

Let's make a sandwich from scratch. I mean, scratch.

I want a BLT.

So... I'll need bread, mayo, bacon, tomatoes and lettuce. And salt and pepper.

For bread, I'll need
- flour
- milk
- water
- butter
- sugar
- salt
- yeast

To get enough flour for a loaf of bread, I'll need about 10 square feet of wheat.

To get enough milk, I'll need a cow or a goat. I know how to milk. 

To get enough water, I'll need... would I need to find a fresh water spring, dig a well, or learn plumbing? Or would it be enough to use the water that is already accessible? Like with cows, I'm not going to buy a cow for a cup of milk. I have had milk goats, I know what it takes to take care of goats.

To get butter, I'll need the milk :-D

To get sugar, I'll need sugar beets. 

To get salt, I'll need the ocean.

To get yeast, I'll need sourdough. To get sourdough, I'll need some flour and water. Maybe some sugar, or fruit, or something... Hmm...

For mayo, I'll need
- eggs
- vinegar
- mustard
- oil

To get eggs, I need hens. 

To get vinegar, I need some sort of juice and a vinegar mother. I think the easiest is to take apples. I wonder if it would be enough to just pick apples, or do I need to grow an appletree from seeds :-D
(I know how to do that, too.)

To get mustard, you need mustard seeds and water. You can use beer, and add honey, vinegar, and perhaps some turmeric to dye it yellow, and add a bit of flavor. I can grow turmeric.

I think I'll brew some cider. 

To get honey, you need bees. I don't know beekeeping, but it's on my to do -list ;-)

Oil, then... I'll need some oil producing seeds or nuts, and an oil press. They make these small hand cranked table presses, but basically, if you make nut butter, and let it stand, the oil will separate and float on the top, and it's just to pour it out and use it. So one doesn't really need an oil press. A mortar and pestle are quit enough.
Now, we don't get groundnuts in Sweden :-D But there's rapeseed, linseed, sunflowers, hazelnuts, hemp... 
And, actually, you can use ghee to make mayonnaise. Any liquid fat is fine. You can make mayo out of bacon fat, if you like.

Which leads us to bacon.

To get bacon, I'll need a pig, and I need to kill the pig, and process the corpse.

I'll need curing salt, and that... I think you get sodium nitrate and nitrite by... mining... and doing stuffs... chemistry and so on. And I think that is a bit too dangerous considering that I'm going to eat that thing, and if I don't get it right, I assume I could be killing myself. So better buy the curing salt ready... mined and chemistry stuffs doned. :-D I assume curing your own bacon is hard core enough for this challenge.

Now, I haven't cured my own meat yet, but that, too, is on my to do -list.

I'll need also sugar and spices. Black pepper... I can't go and pick it from trees, so I suppose I'm allowed to use the black pepper one buys from store. But paprika powder. It's just sweet peppers dried and ground.

Tomatoes and lettuce grow in the garden, so that's an easy piece.

Now, if I'd want some cheese and ham on the bread, in stead of bacon?

Then I'd use the ham of the pig to make ham. I've done that.

And some more milk to make the cheese. I have done soft cheese, but not hard cheese, so that would be a challenge.