Red soft wheat berries

[Adirondackgal]

I just purchased #25 of red soft wheat berries. I am new at grinding my own flour and want to know if anyone uses this type of wheat berry and what your opinion is on them. I would like to make pastry, cookies, and the like. Is the red a stronger taste than the white soft berries?

[farmerDale]

The white and red soft wheat flour would be similar for cooking, and you chose well for making cookies, pastries, etc. The red wheat will not look as nice, because it will be more "flecky", because of the darker seed coat. Soft white wheat would be more pleasing to the eye in a cookie, but if that does not matter, and it really does not, go for it!

We grow mostly hard red up here, which is a higher protein, higher strength wheat, and it is better for baking rising breads..

[Adirondackgal]

Thank you farmerDale for the information. I can't wait to get started. Hubby will be so happy.

[northergardener]

Any recipe that calls for pastry flour will be good. Soft wheat is used to make pastry flour.