Red Fife HRS Wheat

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A popular bread wheat in the late 1800s. Though it has less gluten than modern bread wheats, with care, it can make a nice yeast or sourdough bread today. Sarah has made a video of how to make bread with this wheat's sifted flour here. A hard red spring (HRS) bread wheat popular in Canada from around 1860 until the early 1900s, when it was replaced by better yielding varieties (though not better tasting). An heirloom variety that pre-dates the intensive breeding that occurred during the "green revolution" of the 1940s and 1950s. Certified organic Red Fife has less gluten than our HRS (Glenn) variety, and is therefore harder to make into bread. However, it is heirloom, certified organic and I feel has a superior flavor. Show more