Comfort Me With Apples for thedreamisreal

[nfe_gremlin]

Title: Comfort Me With Apples
Author: snacky
Recipient: thedreamisreal
Rating: Teen and up!
Summary: After his time with the Witch, Edmund loses his taste for sweets, but he learns to love apples. Character study, and cookery lesson!

Comments

[autumnia]

A story about food rarely disappoints and this one is making me a bit hungry. It's wonderful that Edmund finally loses his taste for the Witch's sweets and replaces it with the wonderful bounty from Pomona. The apples from Narnia in exchange for the torch... I agree with Edmund that he got the better part of the deal. And like Digory with the apple, the Pevensies get to enjoy a bit of home right here in England.

And I'm delighted that you included a recipe for apple pie as well! Fortunately, I don't have to go so far as to make one right now since there's an apple pie in my fridge, all ready to be reheated for dessert tonight. :-)

[crantz]

That pie recipe sounds so great, omg.

The part where this story really came alive to me was when you started describing the dryad and her apples, it was so vivid. It reminded me of the time I went to an apple orchard and had the most delicious, huge apples.

A nice, cozy, tasty story. I like!

[rthstewart]

I love the thread of apples through this, how Edmund slowly works through the longing and ultimately replaces it with Pomona's sweet apples. And this ties in to Digory's own experience in the garden with that apple and the PC apples. It's just a delightful way to bring it all together.

The recipe is awesome and looks delicious.

Fic and food is a match made in ... Aslan's country to be sure. This was just a delightful story and I enjoyed the Edmund character study with its happy ending very much.

[starbrowsings]

Oh gosh this is so bittersweet (pun maybe sorta intended?) and beautiful, how Edmund finds ways to live with his demons and move past them and find healing. I loved bringing Pomona and the apple symbolism into it all, the sensory details of the fruit and the tastes and how Pomona's sweetness does not leave him wanting like other sweets do after the Turkish Delight. And I adored how the recipe was not just a straight recipe but sprinkled with tips from Edmund and Susan, almost as if they were in the kitchen telling us how to do it. Gorgeous.

[aurilly]

Thins was so lovely! Such a happy ending to inner turmoil. Replacing sour with sweet, and getting to take a bit of Narnia home with him! This made me so delightfully happy.