This week's amud introduces us to a number of "almost-but-not-quite" bread products. The ingredients are the same - flour and water - but the consistency and preparation differ from standard bread. These variations include pourable flour and water mixtures (think pancakes) and variant baking procedures (baking in a pit in the oven floor.) In most of these cases, the halacha is consistent regarding the blessing. When one snacks on these products, the blessing is mezonos, but if one establishes a meal with them, then the blessing is hamotzi (Shulchan Aruch O.C. 168:15). This should be a familiar rule to us as it is the same rule that applies to more common flour products like cakes and danishes; a small snack of cake receives a mezonos, while a cake based meal requires a hamotzi (ibid 168:6-7).

 

   In order to qualify for hamotzi, just how much cake do you actually have to eat?

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