Blessing on Bread Soaked in Milk

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Question

Elderly people soak small pieces of bread in milk or yogurt so they can eat it. The question is, what blessing is recited over the milk with the bread?

Answer

One should recite the blessing as for bread. However, it should be noted that if the bread is soaked in milk for a long time, to the extent that if it were soaked in water, the water would turn white, then if the pieces are the size of a kazayit, one recites 'Hamotzi', and if they are not the size of a kazayit, one recites 'Borei Minei Mezonot'. If the bread is soaked in a dessert that colors the bread, one should be stringent not to eat it from the point it is colored until the point the water would turn white.

Source

Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, Siman 168, S"K 11: "There is an opinion that crumbs placed in water, and the water turns white because of the crumbs, lose the status of bread, and one only recites 'Borei Minei Mezonot' and one blessing 'Me'ein Shalosh'." Regarding soaking in dessert and the like, it is explained there in section 12, concerning soaking bread in red wine, that according to the Rema, when it is colored and not the size of a kazayit, one recites 'Borei Minei Mezonot', but the Biur Halacha there questions this and leaves it unresolved, therefore it should not be eaten due to the doubt.

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