(The below is not necessarily a recipe I use, just stereotyping)
Woman’s cholent:
1 sm sauteed onion in 1 T. oil until light brown
1/2 lb. meat
1 cup cholent beans
1/2 cup barley
3 potatoes
1 clove garlic
1 T. paprika
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
enough water to cover ingredients
Allow to simmer for __ hrs
Bochur’s cholent:
2 onions sauteed until very dark brown (keep on low flame while at night seder)
When you come “home” from night seder add the following ingredients:
1/2 cup cholent beans (not more because EVERY jewish man has stomach issues)
1 cup barley
3 potatoes
some paprika
a lot of hot paprika
sprinkle salt all over until there is a layer of “snow”
bbq sauce, and/or ketchup squished in a generous squiggle
any kind of hot spices you can find
Add water and let cook over night and until after morning seder on friday (does that exist?)
Ah! It’s taka, mamish a mechaya!