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Show Take Your Cue From CSU Clean Shades Equal Blight Light Do the lights in your living room look rather dull these days? It may help to clean the lamp shades, say the CSU specialists. spe-cialists. You can usually wash the all-fabric all-fabric shades with soap and wa-tei. wa-tei. Just swish them up and clown in a deep laundry tub . . . and dry them away from extreme ex-treme heat. Of course, this will only work if the decorations are sewed ones . . . not glued. You'll find that paper shades aie harder to clean. Try wiping thorn with a damp cloth first . . and if this doesn't work, use skim milk. Just be sure you remove re-move all the cream from the milk so it won't leave grease spots on the paper. It's important import-ant not to rub the paper or let the milk stand long enough to soften it. . V Cake Decorating Is there a family birthday coming com-ing up soon at your house? Chances are, you're planning to bake an extra special cake for the big day. And more than likely, like-ly, you will want to decorate the cake with a fancy design. If you shy away from the prospect pros-pect of decorating a cake, here are a few tips which will help to make it easier. Did you know that it is better to make a cake a day ahead of time? One that is fresh is crumbly crum-bly and may even split when you I ut on the frosting. You'll need the proper kind of frosting also . . . use one that will be stiff enough to hold the shape and yet soft enough to go through the opening of the decorating decor-ating tube. Cones from parchment paper, and canvas and plastic help to make flowers, stars, leaves and writing. You will enjoy practicing practic-ing plus soon creating cakes with a professional flair. Bioiled Vegetables If you're like most families, you're forever looking forward for new and interesting ways ol serving and eating food three times a day. So here's a novel plan . . .broiled vegetables . . coming from your extension service ser-vice and the College of Sotuhern Utah. Yes, we said broiled vegetables . . . with an "r" in it. You can broil tomato slices, potato slices, sliced onion, summer squash and mushrooms, and come up with some marvelous, taste-tingling results. You can even broil asparagus, eggs and carrots after they've bet'n pre cooked . . . and folks at your state experiment stations have been doing it every which-way, which-way, to see what turns out best. And they've put their results in a new bulletin. Ask the specialists at College of Southern Utah for this bulletin. |