Old Cucumber Soup AKA 老黄瓜汤

Another soup that has cooling properties. Perfect for the hot and humid weather in Singapore.

Ingredients
1 old cucumber (mine was slightly bigger than my palm size)
300g spareribs
5 pitted chinese red dates (lightly squashed)

Preparation
Scrub and wash the skin of the old cucumber. (make sure that it is really clean as we won't be removing it for the soup)
Cut the cucumber into half, remove the pulp and seeds.
Cut it again into large chunks.

Parboil the spareribs.
Toss in the red dates into 800ml of water and bring to a boil.
Add parboiled spareribs and old cucumber into the boiling water.
Simmer for at least 45 minutes.
Add salt to taste before serving.