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]

Uhhh... baubles? Do you mean the Nauglamír or am I messing up my facts again?

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

No, you're spot on: the Nauglamir was made for Finrod. But he also managed to take along an inordinate amount of glitters from Valinor.

Finrod

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't remember that. Speaking of Finrod, do you know the stories of a SoA author named Fiondil? He wrote a great deal of stories about Finrod, Glorfindel and other First Age Elves, mostly taking part after the War of Wrath, and he's the one who've made the Valar the most personable for me - even if I don't always like the overtone and the morale of the strories. They mirror a lot of what I'm uncomfortable with in the Catholic Church... which isn't very surprising, as both the Professor and Fiondil are Catholic. So am I, but a somewhat renegade one, I guess.

Re: Finrod

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Your description rings a bell, but oddly enough the author's name does not. Do you have a link?

Re: Finrod

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, I would, but Stories of Arda is experiencing random downtimes at the moment - like right now - and Fiondil doesn't seem present either on FF.Net or on the Tolkien FanFiction archive. A shame - a male writer is such a rarity in this fandom, and one of our own age, at that!

The stories, should you manage to load the site, are "Elf, Interrupted I & II" and "The Finderato Diaries".

Re: Finrod

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Well, at least I know which site to check now, thank you!

Re: Finrod

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. The author has impressive canon knowledge, including Tolkien's languages (even Adunaic), but I find I can't really swallow all that patronizing the Valar display in his stories. Very canonical and very Catholic, actually. He does have Ilúvatar appear in a vision as a woman, though, which proves a certain amount of courage - some of the reviewers were a bit taken aback by that. *g*