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Preface
Introduction
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Mezonot is required for any baked goods containing flour made from any of the Five Principal Species—wheat, barley, spelt, oats, or rye.  If they are made with any other type of flour, e.g., potato starch as on Pesach, then Shehakol is required.

However, Hamotzi is required for "Mezonot Bread" or a "Mezonot Roll" except when it is baked like a cake and is not eaten as a substitute for bread.

Angel Food Cake Mezonot

Apple Cake Mezonot

Apple Strudel Mezonot
As with all cakes, the dough is considered the primary ingredient and only Mezonot is necessary (Mishnah Berurah 212:1), even if there is less dough than apple, and even if the cake is eaten mainly because of the apple.  On the other hand, if there is merely a thin strip of dough, which is intended just to help you handle all the apple, the dough becomes subordinate to the apple and only Ha-aytz need be said.

Bagel Hamotzi
  Provided the dough consisted of flour, water, and salt before baking (see Aruch Hashulchan, Orach Chaim 168:47; see also Chazon Ish, Orach Chaim 26:9, who considers bagels to be like regular bread).  However, Mezonot is required for those bagels made of dough which also contain eggs, honey, or butter (Aruch Hashulchan 168:24).

Bran Flakes Mezonot

Bread Hamotzi

Brownies Mezonot

Buckwheat (Kashe) Ha-adamah
  Buckwheat is not a kind of wheat, nor is it even one of the Five Principal Species.  It is a legume.  Therefore, neither Mezonot nor Hamotzi can be said over a product of buckwheat unless one of the Five Principal Species, such as wheat flour, even only in part, has been added to it.  Thus, if you eat buckwheat alone, only Ha-adamah is said (see Igrot Moshe, Orach Chaim 65).

Buckwheat Muffins Mezonot

Buckwheat Pancakes Mezonot

Bun    

  Bread Hamotzi

  Cake Mezonot

Butter Cookies Mezonot

Cake Mezonot

Cereal and Milk

  Made from corn flakes (maize) Ha-adamah
  (See Rav Moshe Feinstein, Sefer Torah V'hora-ah 12:13).

  Made from oats Mezonot

  Made from rice Mezonot

  Made from wheat Mezonot
If you add extra milk to cereal (so that the milk becomes a significant ingredient by itself, Shehakol is also required (see rule 5).

Cheese Cake Mezonot
  As with all cakes, the dough is considered the primary ingredient and only Mezonot is necessary (Mishnah Berurah 212:1), even if there is less dough than cheese, and even if the cake is eaten mainly because of the cheese.  On the other hand, if there is merely a thin strip of dough, which is intended just to help you handle all the cheese, the dough becomes subordinate to the cheese and only Shehakol need be said.

Cherry Pie or Cake Mezonot

Chocolate Cake Mezonot

Chocolate Éclair Mezonot

Chowmein Mezonot

Cinnamon Bread Hamotzi

Coffee Cake Mezonot

Cookies Mezonot

Corn Bread Hamotzi

Corn Muffin Shehakol

Cracked Wheat Bread Hamotzi

Crackers Mezonot

Cupcake Mezonot

Date Bread Mezonot

Devil's Food Cake Mezonot

Doughnut Mezonot

Dumpling Mezonot

Éclair Mezonot

English Muffin Hamotzi

Farfel Mezonot

Farina Mezonot

French Bread Hamotzi

French Toast Hamotzi

Fruit Cake Mezonot

Garlic Bread Hamotzi

Ginger Bread Mezonot

Graham Crackers Mezonot

Griddle Cakes Mezonot

Grits (cooked) Mezonot

Groats (see Buckwheat) Ha-adamah

Hamantaschen Mezonot

Hominy Grits Shehakol

Honey Cake Mezonot

Italian Bread Hamotzi

Kashe (see Buckwheat) Ha-adamah

Kashe Varnishkes Mezonot
  Provided the ingredients include flour made of any of the Five Principal Species.

Kishke Mezonot

Kneidlach Mezonot

Knish Mezonot

Kreplach Mezonot

Kugel    

Made from chalah, lokshen or rice Mezonot

Made from potatoes or vegetables Shehakol

Lokshen Mezonot

Lokshen Kugel Mezonot

Macaroni Mezonot

Macaroon Shehakol
  Unless made with flour of one of the Five Principal Species, in which case Mezonot is required.

Matza Hamotzi

Matza Ball Mezonot

Matza Brei Mezonot
  Provided that none of the pieces of matza is as large as a keza-yit (i.e., about one-third of a matza).  If even one piece is that large, then Hamotzi is required.

Melba Toast Hamotzi

Mezonot Bread or Roll Hamotzi
  Only when it is baked like cake and is not eaten as a substitute for bread can Mezonot be said for “Mezonot Bread” or a “Mezonot Roll.”

Mince Pie Mezonot

Muffin Mezonot

English Muffin Hamotzi

Napoleon Mezonot

Noodles Mezonot

Noodles for Pesach Shehakol
  Since they do not contain flour made from the Five Principal Species.

Noodle Pudding Mezonot

Oatmeal Mezonot

Onion Bread or Roll Hamotzi

Onion Crackers Mezonot

Pancakes Mezonot

Pastry Mezonot

Peach Pie Mezonot

Pearl Barley Mezonot

Pie Mezonot

Piecrust Mezonot

Plum Pie Mezonot

Porridge Mezonot

Pound  Cake Mezonot

Pretzels Mezonot
  If three or four eggs in volume (approximately 6 oz.) are eaten, Hamotzi is required.

Puffed Wheat Mezonot

Pumpernickel Bread Hamotzi

Pumpkin Pie Mezonot

Raisin Bread Hamotzi

Raisin Cake Mezonot

Rice Mezonot
  Processed rice requires only the short Boray Nefashot brachah after eating it, not Al Hamichyah (see Igrot Moshe, Even Ha-ezer 114:5).

Rice Kugel Mezonot

Roll Hamotzi

Rye Bread Hamotzi

Sandwich (bread) Hamotzi

Spaghetti Mezonot

Sponge Cake Mezonot

Strawberry Shortcake Mezonot

Strudel Mezonot

Toast (bread) Hamotzi

Tortilla Shehakol
Since it is made of maize flour.

Waffle Mezonot

Wheat Bread Hamotzi

Wheat Cakes Mezonot

Wheat Germ Mezonot

White Bread Hamotzi

Whole Wheat Bread Hamotzi

Zwieback Hamotzi

   
     

American Cheese Shehakol

Buttermilk Shehakol

Cheese Shehakol

Cheese Blintzes Mezonot
  Since the ingredients include flour made with one of the Five Principal Species.

Chocolate Milk Shehakol

Cottage Cheese Shehakol

Cream Cheese Shehakol

Cream with Fruit  

If the Fruit is the main part Ha-aytz

If the cream is the main part Shehakol

Custard Shehakol

Farmer Cheese Shehakol

Ice Cream Shehakol
  Even if ice cream is eaten in a cone, only Shehakol is necessary, since the cone is eaten only because of the ice cream and is clearly subordinate to it.  Its purpose is actually not so much to be eaten as to hold the ice cream and to prevent the hands from becoming soiled (see Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 212b; Mishnah Berurah 212:5; Kaf Hachaim 15).  However, if you specifically use a sugar cone because you enjoy eating it, Mezonot must also be said before eating the cone.

Macaroni and Cheese Mezonot

Malted Milk Shehakol

Milk Shehakol

Milkshake Shehakol

Pizza    

If made from flour, salt, and water Hamotzi

If oil, milk, etc., had been added Mezonot

Shamenet Shehakol

Skim Milk Shehakol

Sour Cream or Milk Shehakol

Sweet Cream  Shehakol

Swiss Cheese Shehakol

Welsh Rarebit Shehakol

Whipped Cream Shehakol

Yogurt Shehakol

 
   
All sandwiches, such as any sliced meat on bread, or hot dogs or hamburgers on buns or rolls, require Hamotzi.


Beef Shehakol

Beef Stew Shehakol

Bologna Shehakol

Carp Shehakol

Chicken Shehakol

Chicken Fricasee Shehakol

Chicken Salad Shehakol

Chili Con Carne Shehakol

Chopped Liver Shehakol

Chulent  

With barley and potatoes  Mezonot + +
  Ha-adamah

With barley and meat Mezonot + +
  Shehakol

Corned Beef Shehakol

Derma (Stuffed Kishke) Mezonot
Since the ingredients include flour made from one or more of the Five Principal Species.

Duck Shehakol

Egg Shehakol

Egg Salad Shehakol

Fish  Shehakol

Fishcake, Fishstick Shehakol