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]

Melian must have loved Elu very much - it's hard to imagine a Maia with an Elf - which, I agree with you, makes it that much worse that she just abandoned Doriath to its fate. A lot of people died because of her decision; but then a Maia may not see death the same way we do... :-/

Yes, despite being a class A jerk, Saeros is actually quite refreshing. I think all who read 'Children of Húrin' felt like saying a few choice words to Túrin! *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know it from serious sources that there are people who actually *like* Túrin! Go figure!

When I read the - ungodly long and unnecessarily detailed - story about him, I was cheering on Mím, Saeros, the outlaws, the dragon... every single one who might have the chance to kill him. Alas, no such luck.

Now Tuor - that was a Man of my own taste!

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>I was cheering on Mím, Saeros, the outlaws, the dragon... every single one who might have the chance to kill him. Alas, no such luck.<<

LMAO! Well, I'll admit it would take a very special kind of patience to like him.

Tuor - yes, a whole other ballgame. And it's not as if he didn't go through a rough time, too.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Aside from what he suffered *before* getting to Gondolin, can you imagine what it must have been, being the son-in-law of Turgon?

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, yes! That would be a punishment in itself. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Gah! Imagine the horrors! I found the description of the seven gates of Gondolin awesome, and I adore Glorfindel beyond measure, but Turgon... brrrr!

And we haven't even mentioned Eöl and Maeglin then!

[amongst-elves.livejournal.com]

The in-laws from hell! *g*

And Tuor only killed one of them. Shows great restraint, IMO.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That man must have had the patience of a saint!