Renas B'Nai Yaakov 280+ Pesach Recipes

WELCOME TO THE ONLY PESACH recipe book you will ever need. This book has over 280 delicious Pesach recipes and will give you more than enough recipes to make all your Pesach meals very memorable. Always remember, the Pesach seder meals are there to enable us to transmit our wonderful and beautiful traditions to the next generation. It is my humble hope that this recipe book will help you in some small way to do this. Pesach has always been my favorite holiday and maybe this book will help it be the favorite of your progeny and friends.
There are so many options and opinions as to what constitutes food that is kosher for Pesach.
There is another concept in Jewish Pesach custom called "Gebrachts". Gebrachts literally means, "Broken". It is most often observed by Chasidim and not Ashkenazim. The concept is that any baked matzah may still have some residual flour on it and when this flour comes in contact with water, it can become chometz. This is a highly unlikely scenario; however, some are stringent in this custom. The Shulchan Aruch HaRav is probably one of the first of the classic Jewish Law books to mention this prohibition. Since most people do not keep the gebrachts stringency, and since I do not either, this book is going to assume you also eat gebrachts.
Please follow your family's traditions and ask your rabbi for clarification. This book is not meant to be a guide to Jewish law, especially when it comes to the laws of Pesach. The laws of Pesach, especially in the kitchen, are numerous and complicated. Many reliable books on Jewish law discuss the intricacies of Pesach law. This is beyond the scope of this book.
Most people I have talked with have about twenty or thirty Pesach recipes. They make the same tired meals throughout Pesach, year after year. With this book, I hope to assist you in making Pesach meals more enjoyable and exciting. In our day and age, there is such a proliferation of kosher Pesach foods, there is no reason why one cannot make fantastic meals that were impossible to make even two scores ago. For example, who ever heard of kosher for Pesach mustard or soy sauce? However, both, and more, are now readily available for the kosher culinarian. The first year that I made ice cream for Pesach, my dear wife was in shock. She grew up not having ice cream for Pesach, but she could not disagree with me that my ice cream was kosher for Pesach. You will find the recipe herein despite her protestations.
All the recipes herein are used in my kitchen and have been disseminated to my family and friends. This book is part of a series of kitchen books I have been writing, including a general recipe book and a kitchen manual.
Near the end of this book, you will find a Pesach substitution list.
At the end of this book, you will find a sample Pesach seder menu. This menu, or some modification thereof, is what I use at my seder. Please feel free to use it as is or modify it for your own needs. All the recipes for the menu can be found in this book.
As a side note, please be aware that we have also published a wonderful Pesach Haggadah that you will find useful at your seder.