1, melon soup put mother-of-pearl 4, 300 grams of pork ribs.

2, practice: melon peeled and cut pieces, pork ribs washed and chopped pieces. Soul and mother-of-pearl soaked with the melon, pork ribs together under the pot, add water 6 to 8 bowls, boiled for 2 hours that is complete.

3, knotty gourd (scientific name: Benincasahispida (Thunb.) Cogn. var. chiehquaHow) is cucurbitaceae, winter melon, winter melon varieties, annual sprawling or shelving herbs; stems yellow-brown bristly and villous, angular grooves. Petiole stout, leaf blade reniform-suborbicular, lobes broadly triangular or ovate, apex acute, margin denticulate, nerves slightly elevated on abaxial surface of leaf, densely hairy. Monoecious; flowers solitary. Bracts ovate or broadly oblong, calyx tube broadly campanulate, lobes lanceolate, serrate, reflexed; corolla yellow, rotate, female pedicels densely yellowish-brown hirsute and villous; ovary ovate or cylindrical, fruit small, slightly longer and thicker than cucumber, hispid at maturity, without whitish waxy farinose covering. Seeds ovate, white or yellowish, compressed, margined.