Communion Bread Recipe

The pandemic has definitely changed many of our normal activities, and I can say with all certainty that what our family has missed most has been meeting in person with our church family each Sunday. We are at least blessed to gather remotely for Sunday morning worship, and a special part of those online gatherings is the inclusion of the Lord’s Supper.

When isolation first started back in March, I made a batch of communion bread, freezing much of it and never imagining the pandemic would last long enough for us to use up the whole batch, but I’ve already made two batches since we’ve been home. I know many of you already have your own recipe for communion bread, and for that reason I had put this post idea on the back burner. But with social distancing being extended for the unforeseeable future, I thought I’d go ahead and share the recipe I’ve been making. I’m part of a communion bread rotation with the ladies at our church and this is the recipe we use.

Communion Bread

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

11 Tbsp. Butter Flavored Crisco

1 tsp. salt

2/3 cup whole milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Dissolve salt in the milk.

Combine the flours and Crisco using a mixer. It will have a crumbly texture.

Add the salted milk which will make it doughy and a little sticky.

Take the beaters out and scrape sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to make a ball of dough. Knead gently a few times with floured hands.

Cut into two equal parts. With a floured rolling pin, roll the dough out to 1/8″ on a floured surface. You can use a cookie cutter or cut into long strips and then cross-way into small squares. I use a square cookie cutter to make larger squares (we use one large square for each Sunday).

Poke each square with a fork a couple of times each so they won’t puff while baking. Bake for about 9 minutes, depending on how soft or crispy you want your bread. We like ours soft.

I store the large squares in a freezer container and take out one square each Sunday morning, let it thaw, and then it’s ready to break or cut into individual pieces.

Even though we’ve settled into a different Sunday routine during the pandemic, we are very much looking forward to returning to services at the church building. I walked into the living room one day recently to find this structure my son had built with Jenga blocks. I’m so thankful he’s still thinking about gathering with our church community!

And how about those sports cars in that church parking lot!!