Micca is right on the scientific way of ripening. They say not to keep your bananas near other fruit if you want to delay their ripening.

CrowSister - My Mom and others in family used the flour, egg/milk and bread crumb method. Fried in shortening or bacon fat. No seasoning though. They sprinkled cane sugar over the finished and sizzling hot tomatoes.

Gnu... not sharing secret recipes means they die out never to be enjoyed again. My dad had a wonderful recipe from his mother for dutch egg noodles (they were more like long thin dumplings when cooked) that he never shared. Now it is gone.

My mom had a recipe for sugar cookies made with orange zest from her mother. The cookies were the most wonderful flavour and consistency. That recipe is lost and my Mom cannot remember it. Also lost is the recipe for scotch lace cookies made with butterscotch pudding and oatmeal.   Breaks my heart.

Sounds like the document is a historical treasure. Please consider scanning your grandmother's recipes and placing the original documents in archive for future generations. Too many of these gems end up in the trash.