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My husband's family, as well as all the neighbor's families, where from the savory, eastern side of the Gefilte Fish Line ( https://www.npr.org/sect...story-of-jewish-identity ) This includes Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.  The food he grew up with wasn't sweet and it seems that many common Jewish cookbooks are based more in the Polish tradition, with sugar in everything.

I am searching for cookbooks with more savory recipes for such dishes as kugels and blintzes.  The touchstone is gefilte fish-if there is sugar in the recipe, its the wrong cookbook!

If anyone has suggestions, he and I would be grateful. 

Thanks

Zephy

I'm afraid I can't help but in checking the cookbooks recommended by my cousin's Ashkenazi wife, I discovered another puzzlement. Roden's The Book of Jewish Foods claims in its subtitle to have over 800 recipes but there are only 536 indexed by EYB. Where did the rest go?

This book was indexed in the very early days of the site, in fact before the site even launched in 2009. The indexer made a very literal interpretation of what was a recipe and skipped conversational-style recipes. She also skipped variations. All of these would have been included in the sub-title number of 800 recipes. We are going to do a proof-reading job on the book, adding missing recipes and English recipe names which also seem to have been skipped. 

I would like to add page numbers though there could be a difference between the USA and UK editions. We will check that out. We don't add page numbers where the editions have been formatted differently, taking the view it is better to have no page numbers than to have wrong page numbers.

Thanks for the explanation, Jane. I hadn't seen that kind of discrpeancy before and was curious.

There is also the issue of publisher hyperbole in recipe count .. often (magazine annuals particularly) claim XX recipes but they actually appear to count all "sub-recipes, variations, or maybe even sometimes even just make the number up - Gourmet Australia's annuals are a clear case in point. And don't get me started on "under-counting"!! ;-)