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]

Yay, party!!!

And I'm the first to post. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Have a virtual piece of apple pie. I've just pulled it out of the oven, it's all hot and delicious. Mum likes it, too, so it must be really good.

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Yum!!! :-)

Funny thing is, I love apple pie, but cant stand the sound of apples being peeled - the sound makes my teeth ache and gives me goosebumps - so in spite of the many old apple trees in our garden, we never have apple pie.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Now this is strange. I never realized that apples being peeled would have any particular sound. Of course, my hearing is seriously damaged by 30+ years spend among noisy schoolkids, so it probably doesn't count.

Visit Budapest next year, and I promise I'll bake the apple pie in advance. ;)

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Oh, apple-peeling does indeed make a sound, a scraping, grating sound.... ewww!
Peeling potatoes makes almost the same sound, but for some reason that does not affect me. (Yes, I'm weird, I know.)

>>Visit Budapest next year, and I promise I'll bake the apple pie in advance<<

Now that's an offer I cannot refuse! *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope so!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Woot! *party popper* First poster!

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

*is covered in confetti*

Yay!! Looks like it's going to be a lovely party, doesn't it? *g*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The week has barely started! :-D

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>The week has barely started! :-D<<

So true, And when it's over we'll have left a trail of collapsed threads.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Here's to us! *chinks glass*

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Cheers! *sips her drink*

Mmmm, this is nice, really nice. *tops up Altariel's glass*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the top-up! *checks time* Yes, gone noon, I can drink with complete impunity!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Is there any particular time when it's proper for one to get sloshed???

Don't pay Jack Harkness any attention. He usually only drinks water.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Traditionally it is considered okay to drink after "the sun is over the yard arm" ie after noon(ish). Presumably naval in origin (at least in the form that I know) given the language. ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Thanks. Lerned something again. Man, but these wild parties are truly educational. *g*

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Learning stuff is often fun :)
(at least I think it is - I can't understand people who seem not to want to know about anything new - it seems that I would have thought that they must have very dull lives)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I agree. Some people are just naturally stupid. *g*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I suppose, given it's the weekend, we can be more relaxed.

Does water usually come with an olive, Jack...?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Probably. We know from Ianto that he always cheats, don't we?