Eucharist Bread  -- The Bread of Life 
(This recipe fulfills the canonical requirements of the Latin Rite)

Communion Bread -- The Bread of Life

(This recipe fulfills the canonical requirements of the Latin Rite)

The following recipe makes approximately 200 pieces:

1 cup unbleached white flour
1 cup King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour (or regular Whole Wheat Flour)
1-cup cold sparkling water (Adirondack Sparkling Water is the best.  The bubbles aid in baking the interior of the loaf in the absence of leaven {yeast})

1. Freeze the flours in an airtight container (like a zip-lock bag) at least the night before mixing, as the cold flour helps prevent a crust from forming.  Chill sparkling water at least the night before also.
    

2. Preheat oven to 375^oF.  Spray a silver-colored (or aluminum foil covered) cookie sheet with cooking spray (such as Pam), wiping the excess oil off the sheet with a paper towel.  Mix the ingredients in a cold bowl. Add more water or flour as necessary to form a ball that is not sticky when you hold it.  Divide the large ball into two smaller balls.  Flatten each on the cookie sheet, to about ¼“ thick.  Prick all over the top with a fork, and then place in the preheated oven.
    

3. Bake for 15 minutes.  Turn over, prick the top of the loaves with a fork, and bake for another 5 minutes.  Turn over the loaves again and back an additional five minutes.  These directions are the same for the smaller recipe amounts as well as the larger recipe amounts.
    

4. The whole loaf used during the Consecration should yield no more than 50 pieces when you score it.  You can divide this recipe for 200 pieces in half and do the same as in #2 above.  Flatten out one ball into a nice round form (see attached template) and score with a serrated knife or pizza cutter, being careful not to cut too deep.  Prick all over the top with a fork.  Flatten out the other ball to cut up into your small 50 pieces, pricking the top with a fork as well.
    

5. Remove from the oven, cooling on a wire rack.  Wrap the whole loaf tightly in plastic wrap, and place in a freezer zip-lock bag.  Cut up the smaller pieces (see template attached), place in small zip-lock bags in the amounts noted above for your assigned mass and label.  Labeling the bags is a great aid for the Sacristans who must prepare the bread for Communion before mass.
    

6. It is best to offer this bread fresh, but it can be frozen for future use.  If you must freeze it, place all the smaller zip-lock bags, along with the wrapped whole loaf, into a larger zip-lock freezer bag.  The bread should not be kept for more than one month in the freezer, as it tends to pick up flavors from other foods or just dries out. 
    

7. If you will not attend the mass you are baking for, you may place it in the Working Sacristy on the counter.  Please be sure that your labels state which mass this bread is for (i.e., 9:30 a.m. Mass 5/7/05).  Bread should arrive NO LATER THAN 20 minutes before regular weekend masses begin.

Communion Bread – The Bread of Life

Template for whole loaf for consecration

Pre-score ½ way through the whole loaf, using either a pizza cutter or serrated knife. DO NOT cut THROUGH the host. You only want to score it!

This is a rough idea of what you should get for the whole loaf. Score the loaf for 30-50 pieces.

Maximum size of individual pieces should be: