Okay, it does work.
After posting I started the editor and this time it warned me about an 'oudated' item combo.
So I copied the original item combo from the editor directory, copied one line from there to the end of the file and modified the parameters for the white dye.
-> WORKS !
Most of the recipes in the extended crafting file are probably only copy & pastes from one of the many crafting extensions for classic DOS and the new system introduced a change in the recipe line syntax:
an 'autoValue 0' added to the end of the line made the recipe to work.
(that might have something to do with the 'economy adjustments' Larian said they did for EE.)
Now for the recipes to work, this parameter would have to be added to every line where it is missing.
But this is a task for the author of the extension (or the users of it).
I have to apologize for any 'is broken' rants I might have let out ;-)
