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Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter
Easy methods to Get Carl’s Starter
NOTE: OUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED as of July 2022
USA Residents
Ship a self-addressed, stamped (68¢ or eternally) #10 envelope [SASE] to:
Oregon Path Sourdough
P. O. Field 337602
Greeley, CO 80633 USA
We require a #10 envelope, additionally known as, within the USA, a “business-size envelope”, measures about 9-1/2 inches by 4-1/8 inches (24 cm by 10.5 cm). European dimension DL is shut sufficient.
If such an envelope isn’t out there, merely ship postage (or forex as under) plus your postal handle, and we’ll present an envelope. An handle label is useful however not required.
Please, only one request per handle. You possibly can revive the starter and share it with home members.
Please do not ship large or small envelopes in your SASE or ship us empty envelopes. Empty envelopes won’t be despatched a starter.
Instance of SASE with starter despatched to you for US addresses.
Please write your handle fastidiously and neatly. When stuffed envelopes come again marked undeliverable, there’s nothing we will do about it.
Usually, it may take as much as six weeks in your begin to get to you, nevertheless it most likely will not. See why
Just one begin is distributed per envelope to higher the prospect of creating it by way of the postal machines.
Observe: The US Publish Workplace appears to have periodoc slowdowns as some begins have been taking 2 months to reach after we mail them and typically it appears they maintain the requests and launch them . This has been occurring since 2019 and we will not inform when it’s going to occur or why. Please be affected person with supply as that is fully out of our management.
Different International locations
Requests despatched exterior the US require $1.55 US postage or substitute two U.S. one-dollar payments or an IRC (Worldwide Reply Coupon) as an alternative of the SASE. Should you ship forex, embrace this instruction: “Ship Starter.” Ship your identify and handle and fold your instruction word round forex to cut back risk of pilferage. (The forex possibility is really helpful for Canada and different locations on the earth the place U.S. greenback payments should not uncommon.) Please give us your handle precisely because it ought to seem on the envelope to make sure we do not make errors.
Our value, together with postage, for abroad mailings is ~$1.95. Your $2 remittance features a donation of ~5¢ in direction of mailings to international locations the place U.S. forex can’t be discovered.) In any other case, non-domestic requestors ought to contact a volunteer as we will settle for PayPal at our e mail handle. (You may wish to do this earlier than you pay an unreasonable worth for an IRC.) Any forex despatched with out an instruction will likely be handled as a donation.
Please remember that we can not use stamps issued by international locations apart from the US — solely US stamps are accepted by our put up workplace and we can not use non-US forex.
Value
There isn’t any cost for the starter. Occasional unsolicited donations offset prices of distribution and manufacturing to permit us to hold on Carl’s custom of not requesting a price. (Please, NO CHECKS. Our banks have made depositing checks very tough. Money works high-quality or we will settle for PayPal at sourdough@carlsfriends.net.)
The Brochure
Learn Carl’s brochure here or print a replica from the MSWord (*.doc) or Acrobat (*.pdf) recordsdata at this web page. Should you should not have entry to a printer and want a replica, please write “SEND BROCHURE” on the again facet of the SASE. That is Carl’s authentic brochure containing some issues we do not suggest (like milk, potato, or business yeast). Concise directions for reviving the dried start are also available here containing our current recommendations for the starter.
Disclaimer
The semi-dry sourdough starter you’ll obtain consists of wheat flour, water, and sourdough organisms, presumed to be “wild” yeast and lactobacteria. The standard quantity despatched is a teaspoon, enough to start out a number of cultures. It’s cultured, dried, and mailed beneath sanitary, however not sterile, circumstances by a volunteer who adheres to the strategies used and recorded by Carl Griffith. Our course of is documented here. It isn’t licensed as a foodstuff. If you’re allergic or reactive to any of its parts, you can be allergic or reactive to it. We additionally assure that we make our greatest efforts in order that you’ll obtain a wholesome, vigorous dried sourdough begin which can simply revive to genuine Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Path Sourdough Starter.
This web page is present Winter 2024
IMPORTANT: Publishers please make reference to www.Carlsfriends.internet, to not our P.O. Field, which can change. Full and present directions might be discovered there.
Observe: We have now change into conscious of an eBay website purporting to promote our starter, falsely claiming we now not exist, full with our stolen emblem. We have now nothing to do with this website and do not know how effectively the starter is being saved.