 When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself; and the only way to eat durions in perfection is to get them as they fall, and the smell is then less overpowering. When unripe, it makes a very good vegetable if cooked, and it is also eaten by the Dyaks raw....  The Castaways - Page 57by Mayne Reid - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 694 pages
...the East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat durions in perfection is to get them as they fall, and the smell...the year round, when it acquires a most disgusting odor to Europeans, but the Dyaks appreciate it highly as a relish with their rice. There are in the... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...East to experience. " When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat durions in perfection is to get them as they fall, and the smell is then less overpowering. In a good fruit season large quantities are preserved salted, and kept the year round, when it acquires... | |
 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver - 1872 - 126 pages
...its civet odour : — 'When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat Durians in perfection is to get them as they fall ; and the smell is then less overpowering. . . The Durian is, however, sometimes dangerous. When the fruit, begins to ripen it falls daily, and... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 780 pages
...is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat durions in perfec• Malay Archipelago, 86. tion is to get them as they fall, and the smell is then less overpowering. In a good fruit season large quantities are preserved salted, and kept the year round, when it acquires... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1877 - 728 pages
...the East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat Durians in perfection is to get them as they fall ; and the smell is then less overpowering. When uuripe, it makes a very good vegetable if cooked, and it is also eaten by the Dyaks raw. In a good... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1886 - 714 pages
...the East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat Durians in perfection is to get them as they fall ; and the smell...unripe, it makes a very good vegetable if cooked, and it isalso eaten by the Dyaks raw. In a good fruit season large quantities are preserved salted, in jars... | |
 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - 1894 - 468 pages
...east to experience. When the fruit is ripe, it falls off itself, and the only way to eat durians in perfection is to get them as they fall ; and the smell...good vegetable if cooked, and it is also eaten by the Dayaks raw. In a good fruit season, large quantities are preserved salted, in jars, and bamboos, and... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 pages
...East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself ; and the only way to eat durions in perfection is to get them as they fall, and the smell...the year round ; when it acquires a most disgusting odor to Europeans, but the Dyaks appreciate it highly as a relish with their rice. There are in the... | |
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