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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I don't think I've ever read the Silm as a whole. I read bits and pieces of it, but as a whole... the pompous style gets on my nerves every single time. Personally, I much prefer the Unfinished Tales and HoMe, even though one can't read them as books on their own.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Cycling home from work I came up with what I think is an excellent plan for dealing with this: I like reading, and when I was younger I always read a bit in bed before going to sleep. I had to stop this practice because I wasn't very good at keeping it to a little bit and ended up not going to sleep until far too late and then either being very tired at work the next morning or just coming in very late. Recently I found a book of short short-stories that my sister-in-law's mother gave me for Christmas last year and I have been allowing myself one of these each evening when I get to bed before midnight. I now only have two left, so I need something else with short texts that I will be able to stop reading. From what people tell me of and my own very limited foray into The Silmarillion this should fit the bill. :-)