Can you recommend an English Jewish cookbook?

[PrettyCandles]

I need a kosher cookbook with English recipes. I luurve Claudia Roden, but she's not quite what I'm looking for right now, and I just don't seem to get on with Evelyn Rose - nothing I make from her book comes out right.

Any suggestions?

i cannot buy tival stuff or osem as it is part of nestle, whom i boycott.

i don;t keep kosher, DH is an atheist, but i don;t eat pork etc.

re milk and meat- you could use quorn, then you can make lasagne etc...

i like the claudia roden books, eveleyn rose is a bit old fashioned now.

if your daughter wants to do some jewish baking, rubyrioja, then a honey cake is quite a good one. it is usually made and served at jewish new year.

when we first married, i did keep kosher, two sets of plates and cutlery etc. but only one diswasher and sink, we were never that observant and we had no space !

mind you, there is no community to speak of where we are, and no kosher delis or shops or produce available at all. i would have to go out of town to get anything kosher.

i know someone with two sinks, two dishwashers etc..

can i just ask abotu the kosher thing
those of oyu who are strict on it
isnt it very trying
do you never think " oh fgs"

id just think this is absolute nonsense in this day and age and i can still be religious and not have two sinks.
btu theni am not relgious

How about So This Is Kosher?

Its quite good on ways to make everyday things kosher. Oh and my grandma wrote it!

Cool, Stripeymama! Can you tell me a bit more about it? No reviews on Amazon.

WG - no more so than a practicing ethical-vegetarian would.

sorry, it was a real q!

Think not. My ultra-orthodox cousins won't eat anything I have even touched (my mother is not Jewish, only my dad). Right down to not drinking from a bottle of wine I have pourd myself a glass from.

Or maybe they are just rude?

RR, if the utensils you used had never been used for non-kosher food, or in a non-kosher way, then yes your cookies would be considered kosher. A non-Jew can cook kosher food in a kosher kitchen.

striey
where does rude start and religion end?
blimey

And a genuine, non-sarky, answer

Don't judge all Jews by the extremes.

That was to RubyRioja btw.

The book is kinda dated (late 80s!) but she had this idea to make 'normal' English (and international) food possible to cook in a kosher kitchen. Lots of soya milk and substitutes to make it possible to do Cream of Chicken soup or Beef Stroganoff. She was a great cook (died three years ago).

Oh they live in Israel so I hardly see them

That's exactly the sort of thing I'm after. Thanks!

Stripey, their behaviour may be more to do with your dh, than with you. After all, he's the one who married out. My mum's side of the family are ultra-Orthodox, too, and they have eaten in my parents' house. Even though my parents' standard of kashrut is far lower than the cousins'. Naturally she served strictly kosher food, it was only the preparation that they might have quibbled.

It is possible to be religious and courteous.

Oh it gets worse (by their standards anyway) as my dad didn't even have the decency to marry out! He and my mum just had a brief fling that resulted in me - and I am now an unmarried single parent too. They just love me...

But thats only one of my uncles and his kids, and like I said they live in Israel anyway. The rest of my dad's family have always been fine with me and my grandma taught me most of the cooking skills I have.

Hope the book is some use if you get it!

Have just been looking at my copy of the book and it does have a dairy-free quiche recipe! And also dairy-free pancakes, white sauce, lasagne etc.