How to Make Communion Crackers (video 1 of 2)

Crackers
2 C flour
1/2-1 t. salt
1/4 C extra virgin olive oil (This and the salt is what makes them so good.)
3/4 C water
Pre-heat oven to 450. Bake 8-10 minutes to medium golden. Watch carefully until you figure
out the effect of your oven.
Knead with kneading hook until well-blended. (Too much kneading makes them tough.)
The dough should be elastic, but not sticky. You may need to add flour slowly, to get it to
the right consistency. If it is dry chunks, add water at 1 T at a time. Let rest for 15
minutes. Dust a surface with flour and roll the dough into a fat roll. Cut off slices that are
about 1 1/2 inches wide. coat both sides with flour. Set the Kitchenaid pasta roller* to 1.
Allow the roller to slowly feed the lump through. Coat the sheet on both sides with flour
and place on a cookie sheet. (You need several cookie sheets and this is the last time they
should need to be coated with flour.) If the sheet of dough has ripples and holes, it is too
wet. After setting 1, do 2, then 3. I have found that 4 is too thin and it burns and isn't
good. Sometimes the dough ends up stretching to a length that exceeds the length of the
pan you are baking it on. I keep a pastry slicer or sharp knife nearby to cut off the excess
and so it fits.
Salt the sheets of dough lightly and lightly roll it in (optional rolling, but it helps the salt
stick.) Prick all over with a fork because it bubbles up and bakes unevenly if you don't.
Then, bake them and watch closely. Set a timer.
Optional Toppings:
a mixture of salt, poppy seeds, garlic powder, onion powder, fennel seeds, oregano,
basil,etc.
Slather with butter and enjoy.
This sounds hard, but it isn't once you learn the art.
*If you do not have a KitchenAid pasta attachment, any manual or electric pasta roller
will work. The key is to have uniform thickness for even baking. A rolling pin can be
used with small bits of dough Again, the trick is to have the cracker end up uniform in
thickness.
I made this recipe from the description of the Biblical grain offering and cracker recipes. You might appreciate this if you have had
communion wafers that are tasteless.
Leviticus 2:13
Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain
offerings; add salt to all your offerings.