I usually share this with:
Drivers and other employees and the bus barn, and children. Once the word spread, everyone wanted one!
I enjoy this dish:
With friends
The Whole Story:
Video transcript:
I was finishing up my day at work. And I was, the thought of the spirit in my mind was to:
"Do some bread."
We had a church meeting that night at 7 o'clock and it was in my mind. I'm saying when, when the vision came to me, what to do is to "Go. Make some bread." I'm talking to God like this, "The meeting is at 7. I don't have time. I'm not gonna have time." He kept saying, "just go and do it." To the store, which the only place I went was Walmart. So I went there, he guided me through the store, whatever you're gonna use. I picked up a box of cake mix, just regular pound cake mix. And I put that in the cart.
He said, "Go find the pan with with the 8 squares in it."
I was like, "I ain't never heard of that before." You know, I've never seen anything like it. (So I go) through Walmart looking for it and I found and I was so amazed that it was there. I never even thought about they made anything like that. So I got all the ingredients. I got some more vanilla because I want to spruce it up and make it taste better. And I've got some of the little half bags. About that big and I could only make them big enough to fit in there so I had to be careful. And so I got all the things that I need and you told me get some foil. I said, "okay whatever for?" I don't know, just get all these things and then go home.
So I got all those things and I proceeded to go home. Turn the oven on, start pulling out all that stuff that I'd gotten. And got my bowl out and the spoons and everything. Put the cake mix in the bowl, all the ingredients, then I put more vanilla in it because I like the vanilla, I like the taste of it,
...and sometimes I put lemon in it too, just make it a little bit more jazzy.
I took the little pan and I oiled it and put some flour in it, you know. And so I began to pray over the over what I was doing. I always pray over food when I'm fixing it for people, you know. Asked the Lord to bless it and whoever it is to give them peace.
And I called it my Peace Bread. And that's where I got that from.
So I made the bread. And it cools off. It turned out perfect. And of course, God made them perfect, right?
And I did 2 batches of them, like so I had 16 loaves. And so the foil that I needed was to, after I baked them, let them cool off, put them in the foil, slice them down in the middle so they would be able to share with someone else. Folded the edges, put them all in a bag. By the time I got done, it's time for me to run to the church.
I got to the church. And he told me to tell my pastor after the meeting is over, that He told me to bring the bread to the church. Because we know how those meetings go. Sometimes people get angry and they're screaming and yelling, they're crying. And so many things can go wrong at a meeting. And God knew whatever it was, needed that Peace Bread.
So I took the Peace Bread out after the meeting was over and told my pastor and he said, "Oh, that's nice!"
That's what he said. So, before they started leaving, I said,
"I've made some Peace Bread, y'all.
And God told me to pass one out to each one of you. And for you to share with somebody that you didn't come to the meeting with."
And so they was walking around the room and they were sharing the bread and they started to bite into it and it was like "Mm! This is delicious!
I need to someone this to take home with me." You know, I said, "If there's any left you can have some." And they will all smilin, having such a good time and I said, "Oh my God, look what you did." You know, He had everybody forget about what the meeting was all about. And just having that peace in the room, you could feel it. They was just moving around, talking to each other, and before they wasn't...They was just gonna walk out the door, not say anything. So that peace that God gives us is a peace that surpasses all understanding.
That's when I started to bake for my job. I started making them, I went back and bought some more of those pans. And I would set up, take one day, maybe 2 days out of a month, every 2 weeks I would bake about 90 to 100. I would stay up all night just baking. I would take them in and say,
"Here is some Peace Bread. I want you guys to share it."
They started liking it so much, they started taking it home to their families. Some of the fathers was telling their kids,
"Tell her to send me a loaf of that home with you." (Laughs). I took one and gave it to the kids on the bus, but they're not supposed to eat on the bus.
But when they got it home, they said, "My dad wanted to eat my whole cake!" Because he was in a wheelchair. He said, "I told him he had to get his own."
I want to start doing it again, but I just didn't have the time. Because I was working 12 hours a day and that particular day I had to leave early. Cause I kept saying, "God this is not gonna work." You know and I was pressured to just really do it. But I always do what God tells me to do when He gives me a vision.
Serves: 16 (eight loaves split down the middle for sharing)
Prep Time: 25 min.
Cooking Time: 30-35 min
Ingredients:
- 1 box Betty Crocker Pound Cake Mix (or your favorite)
- ⅔ cup water
- ½ stick (¼ cup) butter - softened
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon lemon flavor
Equipment:
- medium mixing bowl
- electric mixer
- mini loaf pan (makes 8 loaves)
How to make Peace Bread:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Generously grease the mini-loaf pan with butter and then flour the pan.
- Beat the cake mix, water, butter, and eggs in the mixing bowl on low for 30 seconds.
- Then beat on medium speed for about 2 minutes.
- Pour batter into the mini-loaf pan. About ⅓ cup will distribute the batter evenly). Spread each section evenly.
- Bake for about 30-35 minutes. If using a different pan, check the back of the box for the correct bake time.
