1 c  Onion -- chopped
1/4 c  Salad oil;
1 c  Tomato sauce
1/4 c  Brown sugar
1/4 c  Water
1/4 c  Lemon juice
1/4 c  Bottled steak sauce
1 ts Salt
1/4 ts Pepper
3    4 lbs loin back ribs or
Meaty spareribs
Sawed in 2 strips about 4
Inches wide

For sauce, cook onion in hot oil until tender but not brown, add the next 7
ingredients. Simmer uncovered for 15 min or until of nice sauce
consistency.

Salt and pepper the ribs, lace in accordion style on spit, securing with
with holding forks. Put a drip pan under ribs. Attach spit to motor and
lower bbq hood. let ribs rotate over slow coals 1 hour or till meat is well
done. Last 30 min., brush ribs frequently with sauce and add dampened wood
(hickory) chunks to coals for smoke flavor.

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