What you will need:
6 pounds pork spareribs
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/4 cup salt-I would use less!
2 1/2 tablespoons ground black pepper
3 tablespoons sweet paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
2 tablespoons garlic powder
Directions
Clean the ribs, and trim away any excess fat and cut ribs into sections 4 or 5 ribs is good. Or just half a slab. In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, 1/4 cup salt, ground black pepper, paprika, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, and garlic powder. Coat ribs liberally with spice mix. Wrap each section with foil tightly and place in a pan with depth. These babies will leak as you let them set overnight in the fridge.
Cover, and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
Preheat oven to 225 degrees and place foiled ribs in oven for 3 to 4 hours, or until the ribs are tender and nearly fall apart.
Remove from oven and let cool. Now you can either freeze them as is in the foil or unfoil, cover with bbq sauce (Baby Rays is the best) and bake at 350 until brown, crusty, sweet and delicious.
Update April 2013-Recently we made these ribs and did not have time let them sit overnight. We put the sections in foil and straight in the oven on 220 overnight and the result was the same as the overnight method. Delicious and tender as ever!!
