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BURNETTE MADE COMMUNION

Sometimes during the year the neighbors and former neighbors would
return to Hopewell for a "grave yard workday”. We actually had no
relatives there, but as members of the community we were there, to
work and visit with old friends and former neighbors, I don’t
remember what the membership at the church got up to. It couldn’t
have be real big, this was a small community. When it was Communion
Sunday we always furnished the "unleavened bread and wine". Before
the church bought a Communion Set, the wine was poured into a small
glass, passed around and every one sipped from the same glass, in
today's thinking not very sanitary but the alcohol in the wine
probably killed most germs anyway. The glass used was a juice or
small jelly glass, it usually was a cracked one too. Our grandmother
made the unleavened bread in an iron skillet, a dough of just flour
and water cooked in a dry skillet. The wine came from our grapes. She
knew how to make .good wine. Vera and I often had to help gather the
grapes and mash them. We didn't get any of the juice nor any wine
unless we had an upset stomach. Today's pita bread taste very much
like it, except pita bread has salt in it. She would cut lines in it
before turning to cook the other side. It was very lightly browned
during cooking. I always liked to eat the left over bread, but, I
couldn't finish the left over wine!!!

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