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

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Here is the recipe:

four soup spoons black tea (or the same amount of tea bags), one liter water, 200 g sugar, one citron, two oranges, a quarter of a liter citron juice, a quarter of a liter orange juice, and 125 g (or more) of either strawberries or peaches, tangerines, pineapple and cherries. In addition, you need soda water (with sparkling).

You brew the tea very strong (five minutes brewing), then mix it with the sugar and let it cooldown. You slice the citron and the oranges and mix it with the juice and the other fruits (which should be cut to pieces). Give the mixture to the cold tea, and add soda water until it has the right taste. The sparkling soda water will also make the bowl more fresh and will give a feeling as if it was made with sparkling wine. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! I'll have to try it for Silvester night. Since we don't trink alkoholic beverages (aside from beer, that is), I'll need something original.

[nerwen-calaelen.livejournal.com]

That sounds nice! I'll have to try it at some point. :)