Home Add a memory Read memories FAQ
Contributors People Places Research & Education Timeline Lab Events Images & Movies

Go Back   The Memory Board at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory > Contributors, ADD YOUR MEMORY! > Laboratory Support Staff
User Name
Password
Members List Search Mark Forums Read

Laboratory Support Staff The work of the dedicated laboratory staff has been essential to enable the institution's success and to provide support to the scientific researchers. Please share recollections about your life and work as part of the staff at CSHL.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
  #1  
Old 01-19-2006, 01:32 PM
Rhonda Veros Rhonda Veros is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Default Maple Sugaring

The campus at CSHL has a beautiful combination of landscaped gardens and natural woodlands and shoreline. Several years ago Idee Malardi began making arrangements for a wonderful naturalist from Caumsett State Park, Virginia Dankel, to come to the Lab to lead us on seasonal nature walks. It's been fun to learn about Long Island natural history particularly as it relates to our campus. On one of our walks during the late winter of 2003 we "tapped" a maple tree, collecting the sap in a gallon sized plastic water bottle. We were all surprised to see that the sap looked like water and had only the faintest taste of sweetness. As the sap continued to run and overflow the container Idee and I were concerned that it would go to waste. So we came back to the Lab the next day with many more bottles and took the sap home to make our own maple syrup. I eventually ended up with a tasty vanilla-like syrup unlike the maple flavor we're accustomed to. Unfortunately, the ratio of sap to syrup is about 40 to 1. After cooking a couple of gallons of sap for hours and hours I produced barely an ounce of syrup!!

Last edited by Rhonda Veros : 09-11-2006 at 11:37 AM.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are Off
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump




Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.