If you have a mixture you need separate, you need to find a solution which prefers one chem over the other.
Simply recrystallizing from a solvent in which both chems are soluble won't do it.
If you were using ether it would crystallize out E first, but that method generally isn't used because it doesn't work as well as advertised.
Now, crystallizing out with water in which the right type of E is soluble could be an entirely better experiment.