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

[artemis10002000]

I agree heartily, it is never too early (or too late) for chocolate! :)

Your grandfather sounds wonderful!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Traditions must be respected!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Indeed! and traditions that gets me chocolate doubly so. *grin*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

He was a wonderful man, with a cheeky sense of humour and a love of literature that I enjoyed sharing with him. My grandmother became confined to a wheel chair in her late sixties and Grandpa took on the job of running the house and caring for her, without a complaint. He liked to say he was the Chief Cook and Bottle-washer of his house, and shared recipes and stories with me as the Chief Cook and Bottle-washer of mine. Sometimes I miss him very much, but most of the time I just feel lucky to have known him.

[artemis10002000]

Oh, that sounds amazing! And when you write about him, it shines right through how much you love him and how fondly you remember him :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have been thinking quite a lot about him recently because a few friends and I have booked a long week-end trip to North Yorkshire where he used to live. He moved away to be closer to my uncle and aunt when he found he could no longer manage his house and so I haven't been there for over a decade. Going back is bringing up memories, especially since we are going for a walking holiday and walking was a favourite past-time of his.

[artemis10002000]

Going back there and spending time the way he liked to do it sounds like a wonderful way to relive the good times you had together! You must be so excited already. Did you visit him often in North Yorkshire when he lived there?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Grandfathers are wonderful creatures; mine was made of win, too. I never knew my father, but I never lacked one, not until Grandpa died when I was only 11. Now, 43 years later, I still miss him terribly.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I only ever knew my maternal grandfather because my paternal one died before I was born. Still the one I had was so wonderful I have never felt I missed out. I find I miss Grandpa the most when things go well in my life, and I would like to tell him about it. It always made him so happy to hear of our successes! I wish he could have been there for my Ph.D. defence, because he would have loved the academic pomp and ceremony and seeing one of his granddaughters be part of that great learned tradition. Still he knew I started it and there would have been no doubt in his mind I would finish and he will forever be a part of it because I dedicated my Ph.D. thesis to him.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I never knew anyone from my father's side (not even my father, which, according to Mum's side of the family wasn't such a great loss), but my maternal grandfather was wonderful.