On 12/11/2020 19:53, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Hardly a statistic but some Jewish families did just that on holidays,
> serving traditional meals.Â* I only know of one family that did not cook
> on the sabbath, back then I don't know if stoves even had sabbath mode.
> Many years ago, I lived in a poor, mixed, neighbourhood in northern NJ -
many stoves required matches to light, and Jewish families relied on
Christian neighbours to light them. Sabbath mode not required!