Recipe - Chinese-Style Spareribs

One half cup Butter or Margarine
1 Env. Soup Mix **
One half cup Brown Sugar
One fourth cup White Vinegar
5 pound Spareribs ****
1 Med. Clove Garlic *
16 ounce (1 Can) Tomato Puree
One fourth cup Imported Soy Sauce ***
One fourth cup Chili Sauce

* Garlic Clove should be finely chopped.
** You can use the following soup mixes in this recipe: Onion, Onion
Mushroom, BeefyMushroom, BeefyOnion recipe Soup Mixes.
*** For best Taste use the Imported Soy sauce. Domestic can be used but
will not taste as good.
**** Country style spareribs can be used, but baby back ribs are the best.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In large saucepan, melt butter and cook garlic with onion recipe soup mix
over medium heat until garlic is golden. Stir in tomato puree, sugar, soy
sauce, vinegar and chil sauce. Bring to a boil, then simmer, stirring
occasionally, 15 minutes.

Meanwhile,in large aluminium foillined baking pan or broiler rack, arrange
spareribs, meaty side up, and bake 20 minutes. Brush spareribs generously
with sauce, then continue baking, meaty side up, brushing occasionally with
remaining sauce, 50 minutes, or untl spareribs are done.
Makes about 12 Appetizer or 7 main dish servings.

From the "Lipton Creative Cookery Cookbook", from Rich, Sysop, New Cook BBS
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/soup.zip