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

Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am flying off to Sweden for a long week-end to visit my family tomorrow. So tonight I have 'checked-in' to my flight, i.e. chosen my seat and printed my boarding pass. I should now be packing my bag, but at the moment I can't work up the energy for it. There is also the fact that though I am not going to work tomorrow, my flight isn't until 13.50. Since the trip to the airport only takes about 50 minutes, I don't need to pack tonight; I could get up and do it tomorrow morning, but I think it would be a good idea to do it.

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Better safe than sorry. I'm sending Ianto over to help you packing. He's nothing if not efficient... and not easily embarrassed. *g*

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Help greatly appreciated. Can he do my laundry while I am away? *g*

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's something you'll have to negotiate with him personally.

Re: Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip

[artemis10002000]

I wish you a wonderful time and a good trip!