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wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2010-10-07 10:37 pm

Party time ahead!

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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!

[identity profile] vocatus-fortis.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you have a fantastic birthday.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Lissa, I'm pleased, too. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Linda, it's good to see you again. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Having a party like this? Sure I have! Thanks for dropping in.

Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That's okay. What do you think about naming the new comm (temporarily) gaheris_lives - unless the name is already taken. We can always change it if we no longer like it... I think. Or should it be rather gaheris_rules?

[identity profile] mevennen.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection

[identity profile] toughnrumble.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
While Gaheris would certainly prefer gaheris_rules, I'd say let's not feed his ego too much quite yet (as if it needs any more feeding, being a Nietzschean ego and thus superior in every way anyway! XD) and go with gaheris_lives?

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, and welcome to the party! :)
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[personal profile] fawatson 2010-10-09 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday again!

[identity profile] shui-long.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! (here through [livejournal.com profile] altariel)
700 in sight...

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks good, doesn't it? Thanks for coming. :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. :)

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, what else did you get?

(Were the Heyers Penhallow and Venetia? I saw them in Oxfam!)

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh they sound yummy!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I hoped we might get some more attendees on the day!

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] the-wild-iris.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
(Were the Heyers Penhallow and Venetia? I saw them in Oxfam!)

They were! Was it Venetia that you said was your favourite?

The others were:
Stevie Smith, The Holiday
Nina Bawden, The Witch's Daughter (I read this last night, and some of the scenes and images gave me such a sense of recognition that I'm sure I must have read it as a kid, although I didn't realise that when I picked it up)
Lucy Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe (I think this is the next in the series that I haven't yet read)
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers
Richard Barber, King Arthur in History and Legend
Chretien de Troyes, Perceval, in a verse translation
Mary Williams, Some Aspects of the Grail Problem (this isn't actually a book, but an offprint of a journal article bound as a pamphlet)

So yes... once the inhibition against buying had been broken, I went a bit nuts. (Less than £30 for the lot, though.)

[identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello! I'm back again to wish you an actual happy birthday today! I hope it's been a good day!

[identity profile] chiller.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

[identity profile] land-girl.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday! If [livejournal.com profile] glitterboy1 thinks you are nice, then it must be worth coming over to say hello!
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[personal profile] birdsflying 2010-10-09 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Came over from [livejournal.com profile] glitterboy1, hope you have a fabulous birthday!

ps. that apple pie recipe looks NOM! :D
Edited 2010-10-09 18:28 (UTC)
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[identity profile] mraltariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thanks! I will.

[identity profile] ooxc.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!

[identity profile] ooxc.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops - forgot to say that I came as glitterboy1's guest

Re: Happy birthday

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantastic haul. Venetia and Friday's Child are my favourites. Heyer thought Penhallow was her best, but she was wrong :-)

That Sutcliff is my absolute favourite, I hope you enjoy it. Have tissues handy.

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