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Orach Chaim 168 Laws of breaking the bread

only goes after the time of baking. And there are those who disagree and say that anything that the beginning of the dough is thick, and even if he loosened it afterwards with water and made it spongy [meaning: a dough which he kneaded it and made it in the form of a sponge] and cooked it in water or fried it in oil, one recites on them the blessing "...Who takes out...". And the custom is to be lenient. And a Heaven-fearing one should fulfill both opinions and should only eat by reciting the blessing on a different bread first. Gloss: All of this only refers to a case where it has, after baking, the look of bread [language of Tur and the decisors]. But if it doesn't have the look of bread, such as noodles that are called in German wrimslich, according to all, the blessing "...Who takes out..." is not recited on them, and not 3 blessings, for it is not called bread. But pashtida and kreplech are called the look of bread (Mordecai, Chapter "Each Time") and one should only eat them if he recited the blessing on other bread first. And all of this only refers to a dough that does not contain oil and honey and the like, just that it's fried in them. But if it was kneaded with them, its law was already explained by bread offered as dessert.

14 That which was scalded [meaning: like a kind of bread – it is scalded with boiling water] that afterwards one baked it in an oven is absolute bread and one recites on it the blessing "...Who takes out...". Gloss: And likewise, something thats mixture is loose, that one baked it in an oven without liquid – its law is like bread and one recites on it the blessing "...Who takes out..." and three blessings. And likewise, if one baked it in a stewpot without liquid [Tosaphoth and Rabbi Asher and Rabbi Nissim, Chapter "The Entire Time"; and Maimonides, Chapter 6 of The Laws of Challah; and She'iltot; and Tur]. And the bit of liquid with which the stewpot is smeared so that it shouldn't burn the dough is not called liquid [Haggahot Maimuniyyot, Chapter 3 of The laws of Blessings]. But something thats mixture is loose, and one fried it in liquid – according to everyone it is not bread [Tosaphoth and Rabbi Asher and Rabbi Nissim and Rabbi Yonah, Chapter "How Does One Recite Blessings"].

15 Truknin – meaning that a hole is made in a stove in which flour is placed and water is mixed in it and it gets baked there – one recites on it the blessing "...Who creates kinds of sustenance" and one blessing embodying three. And if he fixed his meal on it, he recites on it the blessing "...Who takes out..." and grace after the meal. But "trita" – meaning that flour and water are taken and are mixed together and are poured onto the stove and it spreads and gets baked – does not have the law of bread at all and one only recites on it the blessing "...Who creates kinds of sustenance" and one blessing embodying three, and even if he fixed his meal on it.

16 Indian bread, which is bread that is baked with a skewer and is smeared with oil or with egg-water, and likewise, bread that is made for kutakh, that is not baked in an oven, but in the sun, one recites on it the blessing "...Who creates kinds of sustenance".