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 imagine he and Sheldon would get along quite well, both being dedicated scientists. And I think the green being on the inside is in keeping with the chocolate connection. After all, the chocolate isn't literally green. :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That, Captain, is a logical assumption - quite surprising, coming from a human. Congratulations. *g*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do my best to apply logic in my assumptions -- it can lead to such delightfully unexpected thoughts and conclusions. :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Despite what humans might think, logic and imagination aren't polar opposites. They are the two sides of the same coin. That's why I get annoyed whenever I see hare-brained plotlines in TV-series... or read them in fanfic.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it can be fun to start with a completely illogical plotline and see where it takes you; it has to be pretty clear that it is a parody, though and actually now that I think about it, it also has to adhere to its own, completely twisted though it may be, logic.