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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 [livejournal.com profile] 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!

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Date: 2010-10-04 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solanpolarn.livejournal.com
I love Nancy, too, and like you she represented the person I would have liked to be. Now I think I am quite happy to be a Titty, though sometimes I feel a bit like a Peggy. Isn't it fantastic that a man writing in the 1930's created these female characters that are strong and interesting and feel so very real, that we can identify with them? This is one of the reasons I get upset with people complaining that J.K. Rowling wrote books with a male main character; why should we have to limit ourselves to writing about people who share a gender with us? What we should do is complain if/about male authors not writing good female characters!

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Date: 2010-10-04 06:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com
Yes. I hate the whole "write what you know" philosophy - it seems to me that there are so many wonderful books that fall outside that and many bad books written because of it. Personally, I prefer to read books and then decide whether there is a problem with it rather than assume that facts about the author will influence the book (although I listen if people I trust tell me there are problems that will annoy me, but I read a lot of old books and prefer to be able to read them without needing the author to have modern sensibilities)
I agree that the best thing about his characters is that they feel so real and that makes them much easier to identify with, even as the books are so set in their period (I would say dated, but that is taken as a bad thing and I can't think of the right word for dated-in-a-good-way). :)
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