If the person is conscious of having eaten something indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E.
Such articles of diet as cucumbers, unripe or overripe fruit, an excessive amount of sweets, rich salads, heavy puddings, etc.
Dutchess does not want an extremely rich soil nor close pruning and the bunches should be thinned and as soon as ripe ought to be picked as there is a tendency to crack when overripe or exposed to the wet.
When the acidity is somewhat ameliorated, as in the case of thoroughly ripe or even overripe and shriveled fruit, the flavor is much liked by many people.
In making commandaria the grapes are left on the vines until overripe and, after picking, are spread out in the sun for further evaporation, when they undergo the usual process of wine-making.
Not only are they dirty and bruised, but unripe or diseased fruit, as well as overripe fruit that has fallen from the tree, is collected together indiscriminately.
The sky is softly blue, like dark byssus; the water ripples like blue silk; and the moon is like a great, overripe fruit which bursts in the sky and whose juice trickles over the Nile.
If the sugar is very abundant, as in overripe grapes, and a considerable portion of it remains unfermented, a SWEET WINE like Tokay or Malmsey is produced.
But in using them the water or juice should be taken, excluding the pulp, and the melon should be ripe and fresh, but not overripe and stale.
This is especially important in jelly making for another reason also: In overripe fruit the pectin begins to lose its jelly-making quality.
In all soft fruits the fermentative stage follows closely upon the perfectly ripe stage; therefore it is better to use underripe rather than overripe fruit.
Care should be taken, however, not to allow them to become overripe before canning.
Fruit that is just a little underripe contains more pectin than the mature or overripe fruits.
Do not can any injured or decayed part nor allow apples to become overripe before canning.
The man only nodded absently and went on peeling an overripe peach, striking out constantly, with the hand that held the knife, at the flies.
Whole families had swarmed out into the streets, and from time to time I stepped over a negro urchin, who lay flat on his stomach, drinking the juice of an overripe watermelon out of the rind.
The very odour of the place was still in my nostrils--a mixture of old clothes, of stale cheese, of overripe melons.
For canning purposes, only firm, fresh apricots and peaches that are not overripe should be selected.
Underripe fruit or insufficiently cooked fruit or vegetables do not have the proper texture; neither do overripe or uncooked foods.
For all methods, as has been mentioned, the fruit should be selected when it is fresh and in good condition, as such fruit has less chance to spoil than fruit that is overripe or has decayed spots.
An overripe pineapple is just as unsatisfactory as one that is not ripe enough.
Overripe or fermenting bananas crushed and placed in the bait pans give good results, especially with milk added to them.
The banana is not underripe or overripeand is not eaten in chunks.
The loss of the turnips had seemed bad enough, but while watching the green things about her disappear it had not occurred to the child that the grasshoppers would eat the dry and, as Luther had said, overripe stems of the flax.
