The Turn of the Screw and Essex Huffer Bread Rolls
These huffer rolls were amazing! Of course, it you are using a bread machine along with converting the measurements, be prepared to add lots of flour to get rid of the stickiness so you will be able to roll out. I found where people use these rolls for all kinds of sandwiches. Can’t wait to experiment with different variations.
Recipe: https://lifeinmudspatteredboots.com/2018/11/19/essex-huffer-bread-rolls/
I love gothic literature which is how I came across this book a few years ago. I googled gothic lit reads and saw this book on many lists. I started reading it but only got through a few pages. It has been collecting dust ever since. This past weekend, MT and I watched The Turning, a recent “horror”/thriller movie. After it started, I saw it was adapted from The Turn of the Screw which I thought was interesting. Well, when it ended, we thought we missed something. We rewatched the ending again. Nothing. It just stopped. We literally had to look up what just happened. I knew then I was going to have to read the book to get what truly happened in the story…hence…my reading the book now after a few years of buying it. This is not a very long book. I am thankful others, however, found it a difficult read as well. The Turn of the Screw is a great story but written in a way that bogs down the reader. Thankfully, I found an audio book on YouTube, so I listened to it as I cooked. I went back and forth from the book to the audiobook. Earlier today, I finished the book and… the ending just sort of ended. Bam! Just like that. I’m like, “do what?” I turned the page thinking there would be an Epilogue but nothing. To the computer I go in order to clarify what I had just read. Yep. I was right. Through my googling, though, I did find out about a bunch of movies that have been adapted from this book, one which I love – The Others (well, sort of adapted). There are a few more, like The Innocents, which I have not seen so you can probably guess what I will be doing the next few days.
If you like these types of “ghost” stories, then listen to the audio reading next time you make a four hour trip…or…just watch the movies. In this case, the movies may be just as good as the book. 😁
Came across this article that discussed the inspiration behind the novel:
“In January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury told him the story that became The Turn of the Screw. James wrote in his notebook: “Note here the ghost story told me at Addington (evening of Thursday 10th), by the Archbishop of Canterbury … the story of the young children … left to the care of servants in an old country house through the death, presumably, of parents. The servants, wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children … The servants die (the story vague about the way of it) and their apparitions, figures return to haunt the house and children, to whom they seem to beckon … It is all obscure and imperfect, the picture, the story, but there is a suggestion of strangely gruesome effect in it. The story to be told … by an outside spectator, observer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/03/fiction.colmtoibin
