Soft Matzot - Continuation
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Question
Regarding what I was told that the Ashkenazi custom is to use thin wafers and not thick bread, as the Rema wrote. I don't understand, because soft matzot are also thin. Also, the Rema himself made soft matzot, as he writes that three matzot are made from a whole issaron, and if he made hard matzot, it wouldn't be possible to eat such a thing.
Answer
Shalom Rav
Since the Ashkenazi custom is not to bake matzot on Passover, and soft matzot are not suitable for eating if they were made several days ago.
Unless they were kept frozen or similar, which was not possible in the time of the Rema.
Therefore, the custom was to make only hard matzot.