cholent
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊlənt/
- I don't like cholent.
Examples
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To celebrate the holiday, we prepared a rich cholent packed with meat, beans, and vegetables.
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Because a Jew is forbidden to cook on the Sabbath, the cholent was invented.
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A while back, I posted a request for cholent recipes.
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That's not the way you make cholent.
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Eggs in cholent?
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Cholent is a beef dish that cooks from before sundown on Friday until around noon on Saturday.
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It can be cooked on a low flame, but sometimes a local baker kindly offers his oven for all the cholents in the neighborhood.
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On Friday night, we enjoyed a warm bowl of cholent as part of our Sabbath meal.
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Every family has its own special recipe for cholent, which is traditionally cooked overnight.
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Etymology
Cholent comes from Yiddish and likely from old French words chaud ('hot') and lent ('slow'). So it means 'hot and slow', which is a good picture for a stew left to cook gently all night for the Sabbath.