A collection of recipes, articles, poems, and stories related to historical recreation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially within the Society for Creative Anachronism. It includes more than three hundred period recipes, each with both the original and worked out version, articles on medieval cooking, making tents, transportable period furniture, hardened leather armor, Germanic lyres, period jewelry and how to make it, and many other things. Part I contains the same material as How to Milk an Almond, Stuff an Egg, and Armor a Turnip: A Thousand Years of Recipes, published separately by the same authors.