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[cellio]

When Streit's writes, on the package of egg matzah (which is much tastier than the plain sort), "egg matzos may be eaten only by the infirm, aged or children according to Shulchan Aruch", what they mean is "...in order to fulfill the obligation at the seder specifically". Why they don't say that is beyond me. It confused me the first year I was paying attention (so I asked), and I was just reminded of it by the box of matzah sitting on my desk here at work. (The rest of the week you don't have to eat matzah at all if you don't want to; you just have to not eat chametz.)

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Re: flour and mostly water

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Yes. However, there is a halachic ruling stating that one shouldn't make bread with milk unless it's made in a conspicuously different shape from regular bread to avoid the possibility that someone will assume it's parve and eat it with meat. The topic is discussed on this page.