ujm – the source is generally thought to be due to the need for hot food on Shabbos while not being able to maintain a cooking fire in the home easily. People would put their pots in the baker’s oven (which always stayed lit) and then go pick it up during the Seudah (this obviously did not happen in Brooklyn or Manhattan, though it could have happened in Queens). Since it was one pot per family, everything got stewed together. Presto – cholent was geborren.
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