Reference for Menachot 15:5

ואמאי תיהוי כמנחה שחסרה קודם קמיצה

But why is this so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the frankincense may be burnt when a loaf was broken after the time for the removal of the Shewbread from the table had arrived.');">⁷</span> Surely it ought to be regarded as a meal-offering which was found to be lacking before the handful had been taken therefrom!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case the handful may not be burnt upon the altar; and here the Shewbread has not in fact been removed from the table. Since, however, the ruling is that the frankincense may be offered, it is evident that R. Eleazar does not derive one meal-offering from the other.');">⁸</span> - That is really no difficulty, for in a meal-offering the handful is not separate,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the handful is not separate from the rest of the meal-offering, and until it has actually been taken out one cannot consider it as a handful.');">⁹</span>

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