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Every Sabbath, there would be a large table.
And the poor people would gather together.
Poor people. From Volodarsk, from Chernyakhiv...
From other places. They would come.
They would sit down at the table. My grandmother would make a cholent.
Do you know what a cholent is?
Do you know why it's called cholent? No? I'll tell you.
It used to be that people wouldn't cook on the Sabbath.
They would cook on Friday for the Sabbath.
There would be these storage rooms [chulan].
Like little kitchens.
Inside there would be an oven.
And people would cook a cheek...
Sometimes legs, but mostly a cheek would be cooked.
They would make a stew with potatoes.
It was called a cholent. It would be put in the oven.
And it would be covered up in the storage room [chulan].
It was smeared with clay to keep the warmth in.
And on the Sabbath, the cholent, the stew would be taken out.
And it was called cholent.
And it would be eaten warm.
Because it was in this storage room [chulan]?
Yes, a little pantry, a little kitchen.
A kitchen of sorts, a small one.
A little room.