Volunteers are being inundated by letters from people requesting free sourdough starter that has lineage dating back from the Oregon Trail in 1847.
In 2000, Mary Buckingham volunteered to be the keeper of a special mailbox where breadmakers anywhere in the world could send a self-addressed stamped envelope and receive in return a free sourdough starter with a claimed lineage to the historic Oregon Trail. When Buckingham relocated to Greeley, Colo., in mid-2022, so too did the mailbox and its regular cadence of envelopes from hopeful bakers. In a typical winter, Buckingham fields between 30 and 150 weekly requests.
Though the preservation society exists solely to fulfill requests for Griffith’s starter, Buckingham said it hasn’t ever promoted its cause. The starter’s legend travels primarily by word of mouth, both in-person and online. One reason Buckingham thinks it’s become so popular is because making a sourdough starter from scratch is a “crapshoot.” Sourdough is a naturally fermented type of bread, so it relies on having robust wild yeast in the atmosphere and on the grains to kick-start fermentation.
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