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

LJ hickups

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Is it just my imagination or has LJ truly showed down considerably? It takes ages to load.

At first I thought it was because this entry has so many comments. But then I checked out antigwenallies, and entries with only a handful comments took quite the time to load, too.

Then I thought my old PC is ailing. But then I came over to the laptop, and it doesn't go considerably faster. What the heck could be happening?

Re: LJ hickups

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I've been having loads of problems with it today - timing out, only loading parts of pages, not wanting to post comments, forgetting what I had typed - but thought it might be my internet connection as some other sites were playing up as well.

Re: LJ hickups

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've struggled with LJ for the last two days or so, but not with other sites. At the moment, it seems to work well enough, let's hope it isn't just a temporary recovery. *crosses fingers*

Re: LJ hickups

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

I've been having the same problem - it's definitely LJ. Right now, it seems better, though.

Re: LJ hickups

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, good to know that it isn't something going to the dogs on my end of the connection. *is relieved*

Also, this should be comment #450, if I'm not mistaken. Still only 9 first-level comments on this page, though. I must think of something new.

Re: LJ hickups

[artemis10002000]

I've been encountering the same problems these last couple of days. Maybe it just seems that way to me since I haven't used LJ much today, but it seems to have gotten better (I hope so, anyway!)