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The bread that is used for the memorial of Christ's death is very specific, and must be unleavened. Its being unleavened pictures his perfection, his sinlessness. His body being perfect and complete, nothing was required to be added to it. So also, nothing such as salt or shortening should be added in the making of the unleavened bread. Besides, to add anything to improve its taste would detract from its being the "bread of affliction." We aren't trying to be Cinnabon here. Look to both the Old and the New Testament for support of this, one at Deuteronomy 16:3 which states:

"You must eat nothing leavened along with it for seven days. You should eat along with it unfermented cakes, the bread of affliction, because it was in haste that you came out of the land of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life"

and 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 which reads:

"YOUR [cause for] boasting is not fine. Do YOU not know that a little leaven ferments the whole lump? 7 Clear away the old leaven, that YOU may be a new lump, according as YOU are free from ferment. For, indeed, Christ our passover has been sacrificed. 8 Consequently let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with leaven of badness and wickedness, but with unfermented cakes of sincerity and truth

As for the wine, this should, first of all, be actualfermented wine. Why? Several reasons: First off, there can be no question about Jesus' using fermented wine and not just grape juice. Grape juice, for example, cannot burst old wine bottles, nor can it remain unfermented from the time of the grape harvest (typically in the fall) until spring, the Passover season, the time at which Jesus instituted the memorial of his death. The testimony of Jewish history confirms that fermented wine was used at the Passover. Matthew 9:17 reads:

"Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins; but if they do, then the wineskins burst and the wine spills out and the wineskins are ruined. But people put new wine into new wineskins, and both things are preserved."

and Matthew 11:19:

"the Son of man did come eating and drinking, still people say, Look! A man gluttonous and given to drinking wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' All the same, wisdom is proved righteous by its works."

Can any old wine be used? No, first off, the wine must be red. Could white wine be a fitting symbol of blood? No, it should be red, as in the "blood of the grape." Further, as the blood of Jesus

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