Wuxi Spare Ribs in Sauce, belonging to the Su cuisine, is a local traditional dish of Jiangsu Province. The main ingredients are pork ribs, fat square pork, soy sauce, sugar, Shaoxing wine and so on. Wuxi pork ribs in sauce was developed in 1872-1909 (during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty), with the rapid development of commerce and industry in Wuxi, many butcher stores hired famous masters and operated hard to create a brand name and compete for business, and there have been "Old Three Treasures", "Lu Draft", "Old Lu Draft", "Old Lu Draft" and "Old Lu Draft". There were "Old Sanzhen", "Luzhuzhuan", "Old Luzhuzhuan", "Real Luzhuzhuan" and other brand names. As a result of competition, the quality of meat bones was constantly improved. Wuxi ribs are cooked with great care.
One is the selection of materials fine, need to take three folder fine grass chops as raw materials. This kind of grass chops as raw materials. This grass chops, only seven or eight pounds on a pig, it is characterized by tender meat.
The second is the ingredients to be good, you need to use soy sauce, sugar, old granary wine, and onions, ginger, fennel, cloves, cinnamon and other cooking.
Third, the operation should be strict, one hundred pounds of raw meat bones, to add twelve pounds of soy sauce, three pounds of sugar, three pounds of yellow wine, with the fire two hours.
Finally, about sixty-four pounds of Wuxi pork ribs are made and their characteristics are maintained. Pork ribs provide high quality protein and fat necessary for human physiological activities, especially rich in calcium to maintain bone health. Its protein content is higher than that of milk powder, in which iron and sodium are far higher than that of fresh meat, and the content of calcium is far beyond that of other foods. Bone has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting the essence and replenishing blood; it is suitable for those who have insufficient qi and blood, and yin deficiency and nausea.