Chapter 54: 4-6
Laws of Primary and Secondary Foods
4. If the person desires both of them - e.g., he wants to drink an
alcoholic beverage, but also eat pastries, honey cookies, preserves, or the
like, he must recite blessings for both of them. First, he should recite
the blessing on the pastries or the preserves, for they are more important,
and then recite the blessing on the alcoholic beverages.
This is surely the case when one eats pastry and drinks coffee. One must
recite blessing for both of them - first for the pastry, and then for the
coffee - because one desires them both.
5. If two types of food are cooked together, and each type of food is
separate, one should recite the appropriate blessing for each one
individually. However, if they are crushed and stuck together, we follow
the majority - i.e., the food which is the majority is considered as the
ikar. The appropriate blessing for it is recited, and in doing so, one
covers the other food.* However, if one of the two foods is made of one of
the five species of grain, even if it is in the minority, it is considered
the ikar, as explained in Chapter 48, Law 10.
* {The Pri Megodim 208:7 and the Mishnoh B'rurah 212:1 state that, as long
as the two are cooked together, even if they are separate entities, one
blessing is sufficient. (The same decision is apparent from the Shulchon
Oruch HoRav 212:1.)
6.The following laws apply when milk or soup is poured onto a food with the
intention of eating the two together. If one's primary intention is for the
food, it is necessary to recite a blessing only for it. The milk or soup is
considered as tofeil [and does not require a separate blessing of its own].
If one's intention is for them both (and different blessings must be
recited for them), one should first recite a blessing for the food, eat
some of it, and afterwards recite a blessing on the milk or soup.
In this regard, the relative quantities of the foods are not significant.
Even if the food is a product of the five species of grain, it is not
considered as an ikar [to the extent that a second blessing is not
required] in this context. (The laws applying to foods cooked in water and
milk are explained in Chapters 48 and 53.)
