Soft White Winter Wheat is the mildest, palest wheat we carry, and ours is a single variety, LCS Shine, chosen for its pastry quality. It’s low in protein and light on gluten, without the color or faint bitterness that even soft red carries. It reaches you as whole berries, so you mill it fresh when you’re ready to bake.
Milled fine, it makes a soft, delicate flour with a clean, sweet flavor and a fine, tender crumb. Use it for cakes, cookies, muffins, scones, biscuits, pie crust, and delicate pastry. Milled at home, you keep the whole grain, so expect a little more color than a sifted flour. Sift out some of the bran if you want a paler, lighter result. Cooked whole, the berries stay tender and mild in soups, pilafs, and grain salads.
How to Bake with Soft White Wheat Flour
Soft white makes the most tender crumb of any wheat, so handle it gently. Mix batters just until they come together, and keep pie and biscuit dough cold so the butter stays in pieces. Fresh whole grain flour absorbs more liquid than store-bought, so let batters rest a few minutes before baking. It isn’t a bread wheat on its own, but replacing up to a quarter of your bread flour with soft white gives a softer, more tender loaf.
Soft White Wheat Berries at a Glance
- LCS Shine Soft White Winter Wheat Berries, whole grain.
- 9.57% 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.
- Backed by our 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee.
The Story of LCS Shine
Soft white winter wheat is the wheat of the Pacific Northwest, where wet winters and dry summers grow the lowest-protein, cleanest-tasting wheat in the country. It’s the wheat behind fine cakes, cookies, and pastry. LCS Shine is a modern variety from Limagrain Cereal Seeds, and it has earned a reputation for quality. The USDA’s Western Wheat Quality Laboratory rates its end-use quality Most Desirable, its top rating, and it has won quality awards in the National Wheat Yield Contest, where a panel of industry experts picks the best wheats in each class.
As with all our wheats, we went looking for the genetics first. We bought a supply of LCS Shine from a group of growers to see how it milled, and hands down, it’s the best wheat we’ve ever run through our mill. Now that we know what we have, we’ve found a farm and placed our order for next harvest, so our future supply will be identity preserved from a single farm. That matters to us, and we think it matters to you.
Whole Berries for Your Home Mill
This is a single-variety grain, not a blend. You know exactly which wheat you’re milling, 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 Variety: LCS Shine soft white winter wheat, selected for pastry quality.
- Built for Home Milling: Clean, whole berries ready for your home mill.
Life is short. Make good bread.
Allergen Notice: Contains wheat.
