h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Lanzababy and minorvogonpoet.

Is this to be in the form of an entry be submitted thro' PR?

If so, I'd like to give this one a go if I may.

Deke

Yes please - that is the intention. I'll be around to help as much as I can if anyone is in need of further advice.

Thanks very much Deke, I shall look forward to seeing what you send into us

I would contribute my mother-in-law's recipe for poppy seed cake.

But I don't think it belongs on the Edited Guide, because it's not just the recipe that's interesting. My mother-in-law was Hungarian and her story is interesting.

Hi MVP, I've just broached your query with a couple of the Senior Volunteers, who both agree with me that this is exactly what the Guide needs, as the story is personal history rather than fiction and so sets the context of the food in just the same way as good recipe books do.

I'm prepared to stick my neck out here, because we've talked for a long time about broadening the remit of what gets selected for the Guide. And become 'Edited' or 'Approved' means that more people get to find (and read) your writing.

How about you write it - and then submit it to either Peer Review or one of the other workshops and see the type of response you receive? I'd really love to have the recipe, and hear the story too.

I'm offering my original recipe for "Ham and Yam Chili," which I invented on the spur of the moment a few days ago.

Well done paulh!

Keep 'em coming

Can I submit my family recipe for home-cooked Apple Pie?

You know, I was going to say surely we have an apple pie recipe? But I am wrong - we don't!

So, we need one. Do you make Birds custard to go with it? This might be interesting as a sub-header.



Thanks Matt

Well, I was going to do the joke about I buy it from the shop then cook it at home...so it's homemade...

However, we have a local Nature Reserve where we steal blackberries fom and my missus makes a very nice Apple and Blackberry Pie, so I'll get here to collaborate an Entry, including scrumping...

And yes, it's Birds or nthing in our house.

The birds in New England have not learned the gentle art of making custard. Cheddar cheese or whipped cream are suitable toppings for apple pie. If you're French, the a la mode style involves vanilla ice cream.

There are some who seem to believe that applepieis quintessentially American. Given that apple trees had to be brought from England to North America, that seems far-fetched to me. I have a recipe called "The best Apple Pie," but I can't claim credit for having invented it, so I will
stick to what I have invented....

I actually have a half finished entry on celebratory Russian food, so there is a chance I might make the monthly deadline this time. I knov I keep saying that.

My 'Poppy Seed Cake' recipe is now at A87770163.

I'll do one a Lithuanian friend taught me how to make. A drink made from poppies. It's perfectly legal and doesn't get you stoned.

I promise I will finish off that Christmas Provence Treize thing I started last year.

That's excellent news all round. I have a few ideas myself, I just need to decide.

Coincidentally Bea, the poppy drink's part of a Lithuanian version of the Christmas treize thing.

I already submitted a family recipe or two to the EG a while back too, I could always update those to make them a little more personal...

I'm thinking of entering a scone recipe for this, I will get onto it soon