The Best Chinese Spareribs I Ever Ate

The recipe muse, whoever she may be, sings to Annette in moments of crisis.  She has certain ingredients and is out of others. The supper hour is at hand so she improvises.  So it was with these ribs, which she found marked down at the supermarket.   

Ingredients:

5 to 10 good meaty spareribs

¼ cup soy sauce

2 tbs. white sugar

2 tbs. gin

1 tbs. chopped fresh ginger root

1 large garlic clove peeled and smashed

Directions

Mix the soy sauce, sugar, gin, ginger and garlic until the sugar dissolves.

Add the ribs and stir to make sure they are coated with the marinade.  Let stand in the refrigerator from twenty minutes to all day stirring every once in a while to make sure all parts of the ribs are kept wet with the marinade.

Place the ribs on a sheet of foil in a sheet pan. Baste them with the marinade, and bake them in the oven at 375° for twenty minutes.

Turn the ribs over, baste them, and cook for another fifteen to twenty minutes. 

Notes

Annette did this with five ribs, which was the number that was in the package that was marked down.  I had three and she had two, which was enough for supper along with the spinach with sesame oil and the fried rice she made to go with them.  She figures there was enough marinade for ten ribs.  I think you could push it to twelve.  You can double the marinade recipe if you’re feeding a crowd.