Old Cucumber with Pork Ribs Soup

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This is a recipe came from my grandma or may be earlier then her, and I drink this soup since I am small until now.  Old cucumber is full of protein and fiber, it can cool down our body and very suitable to consume during the hot weather.

Ingredients:

1 Old Cucumber

500g Pork ribs

20 Red Dates (remove seed）            

1½oz Dried Squid

Seasoning:

Some salt                            

Method:

1.       Clean up the old cucumber and remove the seed then cut it into eight pieces.

2.       Boil 6 bowl of water, put in the pork ribs which have been rinse with the hot water.

3.       Put all Ingredients into the boiled water and cook for 2 hours with the lowest heat then add in some salt and serve.

Note:

1.       Pork ribs must rinse with the hot water to remove the clotted blood on the bones, the soup will be more purity. 

2.       The old cucumber is better to cook with the peel to get better result on cooling down the body.

3.       Red dated must remove the seed to avoid parched.