There has always been a saying about cooking methods in rural areas: fish is not garlic, sheep is not ginger, and cows are not leeks. It is said that this is the experience gained by generations of people with cooking experience after constant experiments. But what does this sentence mean?

fish doesn't need garlic, that is, you don't need garlic when cooking fish. When people in rural areas cook fish, the ingredients they generally choose are wild fish caught in the river of the village. These fish are not only guaranteed in freshness, but also bring their own flavor. In order to avoid covering the delicacy of fish, people will choose to avoid putting garlic, a seasoning to improve the flavor of food, and even other seasonings are rarely put.

But nowadays people cook fish by buying farmed fish from the market. Compared with farmed fish, the fishy smell is heavier, but it can't be killed without garlic.

sheep don't have ginger, that is, you don't put ginger when cooking mutton. For rural people at that time, ginger was easy to get angry, while mutton was very nourishing, so if you put ginger when cooking mutton, it would lead to more serious fire, which was too nourishing.

But now, when many people cook mutton, they will blanch it with ginger to remove the fishy smell in mutton.

cows don't have leeks, that is, they don't put leeks when cooking beef. People in rural areas think that it is not appropriate to put leeks when frying beef. Leek and beef are both hair products, one is effective for nourishing the human body and the other is beneficial for preventing colds. The combination of the two makes people more likely to get angry. It's better to cook separately.

Nowadays, beef is still not matched with leeks, because they are compatible with each other and are easy to poison people.

It can be seen that although there was some truth in the saying at that time, it was not completely practical. So cooking food now still needs to be combined with the actual situation.