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Carl Griffith's sourdough starter, also known as the Oregon Trail Sourdough or Carl's starter, is a sourdough culture, a colony of wild yeast and bacteria cultivated in a mixture of flour and water for use as leavening. [1] Carl's starter has a long history, dating back at least to 1847, when it was carried along the Oregon Trail by settlers ...
But how can a sourdough starter really be from 1847? Griffith’s family kept the starter in Burns, Oregon, and the group started with samples Griffith provided in the 1990s, the society’s ...
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In 2000, when Griffith died at the age of eighty, ten of his friends and devotees founded The 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter Preservation Society, otherwise known as Carl’s Friends. This group now works together to maintain the starter and to respond to requests for samples."
1847 establishments in Oregon Country ... Pages in category "1847 establishments in the United States" ... Carl Griffith's sourdough starter; F.
American pioneers, missionaries, trappers, and traders who arrived and settled in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon before 1890, especially those who arrived on the Oregon Trail from 1843 until 1855 and those who arrived pre-statehood in 1859. 1890 is when the United States Census Bureau officially declared the U.S. frontier closed.
The Peoria Party (/ p i ˈ ɔːr i ə / pee-OR-ee-ə) was a group of men from Peoria in the U.S. state of Illinois, who set out about May 1, 1839, with the intention to colonize the Oregon Country on behalf of the United States and to drive out the English fur-trading companies operating there.
At the end of April 1844, the Independent Colony, 300 people in 72 covered wagons, crossed the Missouri River and started out on the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey along the Oregon Trail. [2] The company was under the command of Captain William T. Shaw, a veteran of the war of 1812, who was traveling with his wife, Sally, and six children.