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- From: reid@decwrl (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Altar bread
- Date: 30 Nov 85 10:39:06 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Palo Alto CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE ALTAR-BREAD B "1 Dec 78" 1986
- .RZ "PENNSYLVANIA ALTAR BREAD" "An earthy whole-wheat bread used for communion"
- In Pittsburgh and other Western Pennsylvania parishes of the Episcopal
- church, it is common to use small, thin loaves of real, fresh, home-made
- bread at communion instead of the pressed wafers popular in most other
- places. The bread has a chewy texture to it, keeps tremendously well, and
- makes a great lunchbox food (each ``loaf'' is about the size a large cookie).
- This recipe comes from Father Bill Coats of the
- Church of the Redeemer in Pittsburgh.
- .IH "8\-10 single-serving loaves"
- .IG "7/8 cup" "lukewarm water" "210 ml"
- (The water should be about
- .TE 110 45 ")"
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "honey" "50 ml"
- .IG "1\(12 Tbsp" "olive oil" "25 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "1 pkg" "active dry yeast" "7 g"
- .IG "2 2/3 cups" "whole wheat flour" "350 g"
- (Unsifted)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Combine water and yeast in mixing bowl. Add honey, olive oil, and salt.
- .SK 2
- Add flour. If flour does not completely dampen, add small amounts of water
- until all of the flour is damp. Be sparing with the water.
- .SK 3
- Turn out onto a very lightly floured board, and knead thoroughly for 5
- minutes until dough is extremely elastic.
- .SK 4
- Sprinkle a tiny amount of olive oil in a big bowl, then roll the dough in it
- until the dough is covered with olive oil. Leave the dough in the bowl,
- cover with a cloth, and let rise for 1\(12 hours, or until doubled in size.
- .SK 5
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- Punch the dough down, knead again for a few seconds. Roll the dough out with
- a rolling pin, as if you were making a pizza crust, to a thickness of
- .AB "\(14 inch" "5 mm" .
- .SK 6
- Using something like a large peanut butter jar or a giant cookie cutter, cut
- out
- .AB "4-inch" "10-cm"
- circles of the dough and lift them onto a slightly-oiled baking
- sheet. Press a cross into the top surface of each, so that it can be easily
- broken apart.
- .SK 7
- Bake the loaves, on their baking sheet, in a preheated
- .TE 350 175
- oven for
- 10 minutes.
- .NX
- You can freeze these loaves easily; either put them in single-serving ziploc
- bags and use them for school lunches, or freeze a bunch in a large
- food-storage bag.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, 2 hours rising, 10 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Fr. Bill Coats
- Church of the Redeemer
- Pittsburgh, PA
-