Communion Bread

As part of our new church the girls and I sometimes make the bread for family communion. Here is our favorite version of communion bread (we tweaked recipes we found online, coming up with this):

  1 cup white flour

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. sugar
4 Tbsp. butter (1/2 stick)
3/4 cup milk

Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
Cut in butter.
Add milk and stir.
Knead for a few minutes.
Divide into three balls of dough.
Pat out on floured board to 1/2 " thick.
Cut shape as below
Bake at 450 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes.
* Piercing the bread must be done or the bread will puff up in the oven.

 

Score each loaf into 40 pieces (see the photos above) - cut the smallest circle first, then the larger circle, then cut two straight lines at right angles all the way across the circle, then cut each quarter of the two outer circles into thirds (two cuts in each quarter), then cut each section in the outermost circle in two. When making cuts, cut almost all the way through.