This is not the bread used for communion but a sweet bread made for Pascha and stored on the Altar until the Sunday at the end of Bright Week.

2 cups Chickpea Flour

4 cups Whole Wheat Flour

10 cups unbleached Flour

3 Tbsp yeast

2.5 cups sugar

1 cup Olive oil

1 tbsp rose water

6 cups water'

 Add yeast to 1/2 cup of water and add 1 Tbsp sugar. Let sit until foaming. Mix everything together in one large bowl and add flour to adjust texture so you have a firm dough. Knead until elastic, about 15 minutes. Let rise 2-4 hours so it doubles in volume. Divide into 8 loaves and make into balls. Put balls on a greased sheet and preheat oven to 350 for 20 minutes. Add decorations with white dough below if desired. Bake at  350 for 40-50 minutes or until 190 F internal temperature until it sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.

Decoration dough:  We normally decorate the loaves with crosses, wheat heads, etc made out of it. Some people do grape leaves and stuff but I ain't that clever.

4 cups bleached flour

1/4 clear vegetable oil

Water as needed

Make a stiff dough and roll out to about 1/16" thick between pieces of waxed paper (greased). Cut out designs and attach to dough using water to help adhere. BTW, You can cut it down but since we make it for church we make 10 loaves. Cut down to 2 loaves its a good bread for home use.