If there was a Zombie Apocalypse, they'd let me know because I can make the hooch!  This is a joke I tell once in a while.  But it does to the basic question that survivalists think about a lot.  If the world went to hell for any reason, do you know enough to survive?

I had done professional Wine making one upon a time.  I didn't pursue it because of the cost for all the gear and time it takes to sterilize everything.  Then one day, I heard about bathtub wine, that people would make during prohibition.  I was intrigued by the idea that wine making was at it's heart, very simple. I did lots of experiments, some good, some bad.  I learned.I make Viking honey wine, cherry wine, you name it.  I even made wine out of coffee!   I can confidently say that I can make alcohol out of anything sweet.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNuNdTWqWNE&list=PLuTzEk81l_8BMzA6nHAwXMDs1cnR8MF8T

Recently, making and tasting drinks like real Navy Grog from the 1800's, and Flip from colonial times.  (Yum... Flip!)  Bread has had my attention this week.   To appreciate modern bread, lets go back to the beginning.  According to Wikipedia, 30,000 years ago.

I bought a bag of wheat grain and ground it between two rocks.  Interesting.  Can be done.  I then switched to my coffee bean grinder.  With it, I made about a cup of ground flour.  To this, I added a tablespoon of sugar and enough water to make it into four dough balls.

These, I pressed flat and baked then at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.  I flipped them over after 15 minutes.  Done.

Reading up on this, if I'd used salt rather than sugar I had made hardtack.

It wasn't bad.  The texture was like granola meets a thick cracker.  It tasted pleasant.  Success!  Neolithic bread wasn't very hard to make.  I suppose, I should explore how to come up with sugar.  Mint leaves comes to mind as a future experiment.   Since I know how to make cheese, maybe  I can work my way quickly to pizzas!