3. What breads receive the blessing of Hamotzi:

Bread is defined as a baked product made from dough of flour and liquid. Its flour and liquid can derive from many different sources, including but not limited to grain flour, legume flour, seed flour, and water or milk or juice. Hence, there exists a countless types of breads on the market, including but not limited to white bread, whole grain bread, sourdough, rye, legume breads, gluten free breads, sweet breads, juice breads. Breads also come in various shapes, sizes, and forms. Likewise, many other products can be made from dough which are not necessarily referred to as bread, such as pastries, crackers, pasta, pretzels, tortilla, biscuits. Likewise various sweeteners or spices or fillings can be added to these doughs which all give them a different style and taste. Likewise, bread can be baked, cooked, or fried. In regards to the blessing of these products, some of these products may receive the blessing of Hamotzi while others will receive the blessing of Mezonos, and others the blessing Shehakol. Determining the correct blessing over a product made from a flour and liquid is dependent on all the above factors, including:

• The type of flour used. [Halacha’s 4-8]
• Its shape and appearance. [Chapter 9 Halacha ??]
• The type of liquid used. [Chapter 9 Halacha ??]
• Its sweetness or spiciness or filling. [Chapter 9 Halacha ??]
• How it was cooked. [Halacha 13 ??]

In this current  we will focus only on the subject of the type of flour used, and which flours can potentially make bread be Hamotzi as well as the subject of cooked or fried dough and bread. The subject known as Mezonos bread, which relates to the sweetness and spiciness of the dough, as well as the type of liquid used to kneed it, and its form and shape, will be discussed at length in the next chapter.