Bidspirit auction | (COOK-BOOK) . The Jewish Manual;

(COOK-BOOK) . The Jewish Manual; Or, Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, With a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette. Edited by a Lady. FIRST EDITION. pp. xxi, 244. Lightly stained and worn through use, previous owner’s inscriptions (one dated 1851) on opening pastedown and front free endpaper, title loose. Original boards, worn at extremities, lacking spine, front cover detached, crudely rebacked leaving tape stain. 8vo. London, T. & W. Boone, 1846. THE FIRST KOSHER COOKBOOK IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The anonymous author was in fact the noble lady, Ladt Judith Montefiore, wife of the celebrated Sir Moses Montefiore of Ramsgate.  Lady Judith intended that her cook-book would attract the attention of “those ladies not of the Hebrew persuasion” by providing them with recipes for sophisticated fare that was only incidentally Kosher.