[Avodah] spanish minhagim

[Simon Montagu]

On Jan 16, 2008 2:08 PM, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> After kiddush and before hamotzi they have a minhag to eat three foods
> that have three
> berachot (etz,adamah,shehakol). I was always taught to have hamotzi as
> soon as possible
> after kiddush

My wife's brothers also have this minhag. The reason for it is to make
up the total of 100 berachot per day in spite of the shorter Amida on
Shabbat.