How baking helped save my life

The science and magic of baking led Elisabeth Mahoney away from grief and into a new life and successful businessThere was always bread,” says Elisabeth Mahoney. “When I was young, my mum was a night nurse in Hither Green Hospital, and she would come home in the morning, bake some bread in our teensy kitchen, then sleep while I went to school. She taught me how to make my first soda bread when I was eight.”Mahoney and I are chatting as she teaches me how to make my first bread: