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Show UTAH 8TATK EXTENSION SERV ICR ACKICULTKKR - HOME S.CONUM"Ji By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstreiion Agent By Mary Lois Reichert Dual Purpose Flower Garden With careful planning, home-makers' home-makers' outdoor flower garden can beautify both the interior and exterior of her home with little cost. To have the right kind of flowers for cutting next summer and fall, the gardener must se-j se-j lect and plant carefully now. She should plan them so' there will always be some to use for indoor arrangements from the first to the last blooms of the season. Flowers can contribute more beauty to room interiors of a home for less cost than any other type of room decoration. They must be in harmony with all other colors, textures and pauerns used in tne room, xney may be the same color of higher intensity than one of the main colors in the room decorating plan or they may be of an accent ac-cent color. Drab and uninteresting rooms often show the need for an accent ac-cent color, just as some foods taste flat when the needed spices spic-es and flavoring are left out. When a complimentary color scheme is used when the two main colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel, such as red and green, rose and green or coral and blue the accent color should be yellow, gold or violet. These might well be in the form of an artistic flower arrangement. The homemaker will probably want to plan her garden not only for a constant supply of flowers for indoors, but also for outdoor beauty. Outdoor flower gardens have their own specific needs for colors, types and kinds of plant materials. Make it a dual-purpose garden. Shakes, Malts and Nogs As the weather warms up, there's more demand for refreshing re-freshing cold drinks and for these, milk deserves top place, the U. S. Department of Agriculture Agri-culture suggests. A home milk bar is one idea to encourage more milk-drinking in the family. fam-ily. It's easy and fun for the youngsters, especially, to concoct con-coct their own milk shakes, malts, nogs, or other flavored drinks if the supplies are on hand. Sirups of various flavors dissolve quickly in cold milk molasses, maple or chocolate, for example. Malted milk powder pow-der is for sale in drug stores. For spiced milk drinks, cinnamon cinna-mon and nutmeg together may be used with a little sweetening. sweeten-ing. Families with home freezers freez-ers or refrigerators with freezer freez-er compartments often ' have supplies of ice cream of different differ-ent flavors to use in milk shakes. This spring while eggs are so plentiful, egg nog is another an-other nourishing drink that may be flavored pleasantly with vanila. spice or grated orange or lemon rind. Electric mixers make it easy to whip up milk drinks until they're as foamy as those at soda fountains. High and' Dry VJlA,-iV kj' w H L . , i VI VJ H 11 J and cakes need extra liquid when made at high altitudes, says Emma Thiessen, of the Wyoming Wy-oming Experiment Station in a recent report on baking in mile-high mile-high kitchens. One reason, she says, is that flour dries out in these semi-arid climates, particularly par-ticularly when it is stored in sacks or ordinary flour bins. She suggests to homemakers in dry climates that flour be stored in tin containers, tightly closed to' prevent drying out. With such storage the quantity of moisture needed in baked products will be more uniform. Mixes for cakes or other products pro-ducts also should be stored in tight containers and in a cool place. |