About bolted flour: Bolted (or high-extraction) flour is whole grain flour with some percentage of the bran sifted out, which makes it a nice compromise between hearty 100% whole grain and all purpose white flour. It’s ideal for when you want a lighter loaf or dough yet wish to retain the high nutrition found in the germ of the wheat berry.

Milled Fresh — Our Red Fife bolted flour is milled fresh upon order, using grain grown by family-owned, certified organic farms that are committed to ideals of sustainable stewardship of our natural resources for those of future generations. We use granite stone mills and mill at low temperature within a day or two of shipping. Your flour arrives as fresh as possible, retaining maximum nutritional value and flavor.

Heirloom Red Fife wheat boasts exceptional flavor and baking properties while remaining un-altered by modern genetic modification. It performs similarly to and can be use in place of modern Hard Red Winter wheat.

Named after David Fife, the seed came from Scotland in 1842 and is believed to be a relative of Halychanka Wheat, a Ukrainian heritage wheat.

Red Fife has been resurrected by a number of faithful organic heritage wheat farmers mostly in Canada, where it’s being actively preserved and protected as a heritage variety. Although it’s the foundation of many modern hybrid wheat varieties, Red Fife itself has not undergone the hybridization of modern wheats. It’s widely believed that mass hybridization of modern wheat has changed the protein structure of wheat leading to the increased cases of gluten sensitivity. Heirloom and ancient grains, such as Red Fife, Turkey Red, Einkorn, Emmer and others may be more easily digestible and tolerated by those with gluten sensitivities.

The taste of the Red Fife goods are more complex than common Hard Red Wheats and the breads bake up moister, with a cohesive crumb. Especially suited to bread it has a high gluten content that can be used by itself or mixed with low gluten flours (spelt, rye, etc) for excellent results.

100% Red Fife Sourdough Bread

Note: Since this flour contains wheat germ and wheat germ is an oil, this flour will not keep for as long as typical commercially milled white flour. Do not purchase more than you expect to consume within a few months. We mill fresh within a couple days of shipping. We recommend keeping your flour in airtight packaging or container and storing in a cool place or preferably the refrigerator or freezer.

Red Fife High Extraction Wheat Flour