Soft Red Winter Wheat is the pastry wheat, low in protein and tender by nature. Ours is GP 355, a variety from Grow Pro Genetics, grown on a single farm in Muenster, Texas, and harvested on its own. It reaches you as whole berries, so you mill it fresh when you’re ready to bake.
Milled fine, it makes a soft, tender flour with a mild, faintly sweet flavor. It’s low in protein and light on gluten, which is exactly what you want when tenderness matters more than structure. These are the same berries we mill for our Soft Red Wheat Flour. Use it for cakes, cookies, muffins, scones, biscuits, and quick breads. Milled at home, you keep the whole grain, so expect a little more color and heartiness than our sifted flour. Cooked whole, the berries stay chewy in soups, pilafs, and grain salads.
How to Bake with Soft Red Wheat Flour
Soft wheat makes a tender crumb, so mix just until the batter comes together and stop there. Fresh whole grain flour absorbs more liquid than store-bought, so let batters rest a few minutes before baking. For a lighter result, sift out some of the bran. For yeast bread, replace up to a quarter of your bread flour with soft red for a softer crumb.
Soft Red Wheat Berries at a Glance
- GP 355 Soft Red Winter Wheat Berries, whole grain.
- 10% gluten-forming protein for a fine, tender crumb.
- Mill into flour for pastry and quick breads, or cook whole for salads, pilafs, and soups.
- 7.5 lb bags are vacuum sealed with a nitrogen flush. The 15 lb size ships as two 7.5 lb bags.
- 2.5 lb size comes in a recycled kraft paper bag with a plant-based PLA liner.
- For the most nutrition and freshness, mill your own flour.
- Non-GMO and glyphosate free.
- Backed by our 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee.
The Story of GP 355
Soft red winter wheat is the wheat of the eastern half of the country, planted in the fall and harvested in early summer. Its kernels are soft and low in protein, so it mills into the fine, tender flour bakers have long used for cakes, cookies, biscuits, and crackers. Most of it grows far from Texas, and a soft wheat grown in the wrong place can lose the qualities that make it worth baking with.
So we went looking for the genetics first, and the farm second. We wanted a soft red that would grow in Texas and still bake like it came from the East. GP 355 comes from Grow Pro Genetics, which in 2021 took over the AgriPro soft red winter wheat breeding program, first established in 1914. We chose it on test data, not reputation. In quality testing alongside SY 100 and common Pioneer varieties, it milled clean, showed sound grain, and had the most gluten strength of the group. Then we found a farmer in Muenster, Texas, who grew it for Grow Pro Genetics as a trial crop. The result is a soft wheat with a little more backbone than most, and the tender crumb soft red is known for.
Whole Berries for Your Home Mill
This is a single-origin grain, not a blend. You know what it is, you know where it grew, and you decide when it becomes flour. Whole berries keep far longer than flour, and our nitrogen-flushed 7.5 lb bags push out the oxygen insects need. Keep a supply on hand, mill what you need, and bake with flour that’s minutes old instead of flour that sat on a shelf.
- Single Origin: GP 355 soft red winter wheat from one farm in Muenster, Texas.
- Built for Home Milling: Clean, whole berries ready for your home mill.
Life is short. Make good bread.
Allergen Notice: Contains wheat.