Party time ahead!

[wiseheart]

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.


400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.



Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

Comments

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, yes! That would be a punishment in itself. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Gah! Imagine the horrors! I found the description of the seven gates of Gondolin awesome, and I adore Glorfindel beyond measure, but Turgon... brrrr!

And we haven't even mentioned Eöl and Maeglin then!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I know I've said it before, but Mum's a wise woman!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

And her daughter is pretty darned clever, too! [grin]

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

And if it involves apple pie, I am always available to consider it...

[jen-rock.livejournal.com]

Happy pre-birthday! Oooooh, apple pie! Sounds great.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think you could quickly persuade hobbits of that! And they might find a special apple pie song in its (and your) honour!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Delicious, I love the scent of vanilla!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My parents were teetotal, so I never acquired the habit. My other half got me drinking wine within a couple of weeks of meeting him! ;-D I didn't like the taste of alcohol for a long time, although I enjoy wine now, and some spirits like gin. Stronger spirits like whisky I'll never get the taste for, I suspect. My tolerance is quite low too, so I never drink much when I do drink.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Though I'm not feeling well - really bad cold - I'm not sick enough not to post. (My, that's a lot of nots... but no doubt you'll get the gist of it.)

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

What do you do if you run out of apple pie?

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Run out of apple pie?!? 0_O

*rolls a barrel of apples into Soledad's kitchen*

Disaster averted! *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think we both need an apple pie icon.

Actually, the main reason why I start begging for an anonymous benefactor every february is because with a paid account I can keep my wonderful icons. There's never enough icons, I find.

BTW,Gemma got me "The Tale of the Heike", just FYI. Two of it would be serious overkill. ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I wish someone would write *that* song! I'd be tempted to write the complementary Hobbit story to it. With old Missus Crabtree from "Elf-root" as the main character, perhaps.

[maglors-finch.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of apples... and a lot of peeling... what about raspberry pie, or something?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Have a slice!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We need edge_of_ruin!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No prob, Mum helps peeling. That speeds up the process considerably.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Do we not have some friendly and tireless Elf-lords who will peel the apples for us?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We'll need more first level comments to get to the next page. We must reach 5 this year, I think that would be a reasonable agenda. So, in the spirit of development, I hereby start a new topic: tell me about your favourite book. Or about one of your favourite books.

I could name "The Hobbit" in this place, but that would be glaringly obvious, I think. So I'll name my second favourite. Strangely enough, it's a children's book as well, titled "Island-blue" (my translation), written by the excellent Hungarian writer Magda Szabó. It's about love and loss and talking animals... very, very cute. I read it at the age of 22, I think, and I bawled like a baby, despite the happy end.

[maglors-finch.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Finrod is friendly enough to lend a hand.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

If Feanor glared at them, they'd probably unpeel themselves.

[maglors-finch.livejournal.com]

The Silmarillion is also glaringly obvious, but I'm going to mention it anyway. If opera's are allowed I'd say Götterdämmerung.

But *scratches head* that's a lot of doom and gloom, and this is a birthday celebration. I may have to rethink this.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

A day when one learns something new is never wasted.

I do try to keep this in mind when I have frustrating days at work not understanding what is going on...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Oh that is even more frustrating! It sounds a bit like the stupid region system for DVDs where I sometimes find that I can't get what I want on DVDs that my player can read, just because they have decided to encode it differently. It especially upsets me because this is something the film/TV companies have just invented to make it harder for people to buy their product! And then they complain when people download stuff from the internet...