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History Of The Starter?
In the mid 1800's the Oregon Trail was the main route west for settlers, farmers, lumbermen and prospectors. The Trail started in the state of Missouri in about the center of the continental US and meandered NW for about 2000 miles to the Oregon Territory. Other trails branched off of the main trail, SW to Santa Fe and west to California and elsewhere.

The Starter came West in 1847 with one of Carl's ancestors who traveled the Oregon Trail to Oregon by wagon train. There is a paragraph about the history of the starter in the historical brochure by Carl that is on our Web site.

http://carlsfriends.net/aboutcarl.html

http://carlsfriends.net/getbrochure.html

The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center has a lot of information on the Oregon Trail. It is east of Baker City, OR fairly near where Carl’s ancestors settled near Burns, OR, south and west of it. They likely passed the site before turning south towards Burns.
I can't read from the links as the writing is way to small. But i find this really a very interesting subject . Thank you so much for sharing this. :)
 
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Sourdough is FINALLY comingtogether. 10 years of experimenting (7-8 bakes per year). It’s fluffy, strongly sourdough tasting, and raises like normal yeast dough.
 

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