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

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Tonight, I have been working on my projected study about the Rings of Tolkien and Wagner. In the process I did a lot of surfing, too, visiting pages about the Brothers Grimm, Ossian, the Oera Linda Book, Hengist and Horsa, the Viking Revival, the Kalevala and the Danish philologist Grundtvig.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What is the Oera Linda Book?

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

A 19th century fake Old Frisian mythology from about 2000 BC until 800 AD. It was a hoax to fool Frisian nationalists - by other Frisians, though their involvement has never fully been proved.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh. Like the Ossianic poems, then?

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Even more fake. MacPherson at least used some genuine Scots-Gaelic songs to distort and expand. The OLB is a hoax from the beginning until the end.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Is it at least entertaining?

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Unless you think the overblown is entertaining in itself, only for speakers of Dutch and Frisian. The philological puns are all in those languages. A few are marginally translatable: Neptunus is said to derive from Neef Teunis = Nephew Tony, Minerva from Mine Erven = Meine Erben and the chief god is Wralda, which is etymologically related to Uralt. The first time I read that Tom Bombadil was called Orald in Mannish languages, I thought Tolkien knew the Oera Linda Boek.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he did? I wouldn't put it beyond him. He knew the weirdest stuff about certain eras.

I find the names you've translated absolutely hysterical. Too bad I don't know the languages involved. Philological puns are something I enjoy greatly... I just can never share the ones made in my own language, obscue one as it is.