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

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I would pretty much read anything I could get my hands on when I was young, but looking back I can see that a lot of it was "boy's books". For example I read all of the C.S. Forrester Hornblower and Alexander Kent Bolitho books that my two brothers got (as well as the Gunilla Bergström Kulla-Gulla and Anne of Green Gables (and kindred) by L.M. Montgomery that my sister and I got). Since you are a fellow Scandinavian, did you ever come across Leif Hamre? He wrote "boy's books" about flying, that I really loved when I was young. I found some in a second hand bookshop a few years ago, and they are still good.

The only Danish book I am sure I have read is Fröken Smillas känsla för snö and I am afraid I read that in Swedish. There was also a novel that I read which was very good about the escape of the Danish Jews in WWII, but I can't remember the author now.

Hej granne! Fast jag bor i London, nuförtiden...

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>I would pretty much read anything I could get my hands on when I was young<<

lol - and if there was nothing else, then the fact box on the corn flakes box, right?

Loved Hornblower, the poor awkward sod, and Leif Hamre rings a faint bell... hmmm...

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There are so many wonderful Swedish crime writers! A while back, I realized I'd spent most of a year reading almost only Swedish authors. *g*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

then the fact box on the corn flakes box, right?
What else was it for? ;-) However, my Mum did a pretty good job of making sure there were other things to read, though. After all, the corn flakes box gets a bit boring after awhile since we didn't finish it very quickly! I am still rather disappointed in the British milk packages that don't have any text boxes on them: it is an awful waste of space that could hold words for me to read!

My favourite thing about Hornblower was that he got sea sick, just like me. It made him feel like a real person.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Fröken Smillas känsla för snö - I saw the movie of that, with German dubbing. Liked it a lot, although I don't know how much it had to do with the book.