By Nandini Srinivasan
The aroma of freshly baked bread and pastries wafts around when you enter The Green Hotel on Hunsur Road, Mysuru. You have healthy breads of every kind from the usual to ragi bread, baked to perfection by the women at the all-women bakery, the only one of its kind in city. Started by the charity entrepreneur Dame Hilary Blume six years ago to help the underprivileged girls, the bakery today supplies bread to several well-known outlets in the city. The girls recruited here are referred by NGO Rural Literacy and Health Programme (RLHP), which works with the underprivileged. Girls are trained for six months on the job before they lend a hand in the baking process. Around 40-60 loaves of bread are baked everyday only on order and you have flaxseed bread, multi-grain bread, ragi bread, garlic bread, French loaf and many more. Unless there is a huge order, most of the mixing is done manually which gives the bread a special texture.
