Crumbs! The psychology behind the rise and rise of baking
Baking became big during lockdown.
Marie McCarthy perfected her blueberry muffins during lockdown. “They’re my husband’s favourite so I wanted to get them right!” says the Carrigaline-based mum of one, who was on maternity leave when the first lockdown started. “I did a lot of baking – banana bread, porridge bread and a nice lemon yogurt cake.”
She also entered the National Brown Bread Baking Competition – and won it with a family recipe used also by her mum and aunt. “We all bake the same recipe but it turns out different for each of us. We tweak it. I pack quite a lot of seeds in mine. They might up the wholemeal quantity. I use half wholemeal, half white flour to lighten it, but it’s the same basic overall recipe.”
