Alter Bread Recipe

1. Blend dry ingredients:
   3 cups of whole wheat flour
   2 cups white flour
   2½ cups of Perrier water (purchase at Wal-Mart of Safeway)
2. Preheat over to 350 Degrees:
   Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until done
3. Add water. Mix thoroughly. (You will get a foam effect when you add your water.)
4. Knead dough slightly until it loses any stickiness. Divide dough into 8 portions. Three equal size portions for 5 inch hosts and five equal size portions for larger hosts, about 6¼ inch host.
5. Now you are ready to roll your dough into your host. Use rolling pin and role like a pie crust to a thickness of ¼ inch, no thicker or no thinner. (You can use a 26 ox. coffee can to cut your small 5 inch host and a 34.5 oz. coffee can for your 6¼ inch large host.) While making your small hosts first, cover rest of your dough to keep from drying.
   
   Score your small host with a serrated knife, using a saw like movement. (See Diagram.) Score equal lines so pieces will be about ½ inch square. This provides an adequate size to receive.
6. Prick dough with a round toothpick before baking. You will be pricking it completely. THIS STEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ALLEVIATE AIR BUBBLES. (See Diagram.)
7. Bake your bread in 8 inch round Teflon cake pans (non-sticking pans) and place another pan on top to prevent bread from curling around the sides. Bake bread for 10 minutes on one side, then turn and bake for another 10 minutes or until bread appears done and NOT DOUGHY. Bread may take longer to bake when air is humid and damp, war or cold temperatures.
8. When your bread is done remove and place on a cooling rake and cover with a terry towel until your bread is completely cool. Break all pieces, except for your three small hosts that are to be used at the Alter. (ONE FOR EACH MASS.)
9. PREPARE BROKEN BREAD FOR PACKAGING FOR THE THREE SUNDAY MASSES
   
   MAKE 3 BAGS: Containing 100 cut pieces, plus one small hosts per bag. Also count the number of pieces in small host.
   
   Bring all bread to church 20 minutes before Saturday evening Mass.
10. Allow the better part of Saturday morning to make, bake, cool, cut and package your bread.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.

Diagram - Small Host: 5 inches
(About 69 pieces, count and leave whole)

Start scoring ¼ inch off center and score 8 lines about ½ inches apart. Mark your host with your knife first then go back and score. Turn your host and do the same.

Prick each square with a round toothpick to alleviate air bubbles. Now place host into pan, scoring face down. Press your cross at center on back side.

Large Host: 6¼ to 6½ inches

Score large host only on one side. Prick and bake. When cool, break or cut. Eliminate all small and dry corners. Count all your pieces and package as directed.