One thing I have not gotten used to since switching from store-bought flour to grinding my own wheat is the heaviness and density. Freshly milled wheat flour is better for you by providing nutrients that your body needs. Yet making pastries and biscuits and pie crusts out of it is near impossible.

After a lot of research early last year I learned that my best bet – outside of buying store flour – was to purchase soft white winter wheat and use that instead of my usual wheat. I am not crazy about purchasing things that I can’t find right on my store shelves unless I have tried it first. So, after Tropical Traditions kindly offered to send me a 5 lbs bag of their Organic Soft White Winter Wheat Whole Grain to review I ecstatically said “yes!”

The first thing I noticed was that the soft white wheat berries ground faster in my Nutrimill then the hard white wheat berries. Score one, in my book! (As much as I loved using freshly ground flour, I hate hearing a jet turbine going for 10+ minutes in my laundry room)

The big test came when I actually tried the flour in a recipe that I desired lightness and flakiness: biscuits. Making biscuits with normal hard wheat was always a flop. I hate with a passion biscuits that double as paper weights. So I simply had stopped making them.

But people, I love biscuits.

And I am also wondering how many more times in this post I will write the word “biscuit.”

Anywho.

I was very pleased with the way the biscuits (see, I typed it again!) using Tropical Tradition’s Organic Soft White Wheat turned out. They were much, much lighter and flakier and very delicious. Besides being much darker than store-bought white flour they tasted very similar to the biscuits I love.

Here is the part where I sigh continuously, ring my hands, and hang my head in shame: I used ALL of the flour for biscuits. I loved them so much I used every last Soft White Wheat Berry for them and didn’t try my hand at seeing how good they were in a pastry crust. They were that good, folks.

Yes, Tropical Traditions will be getting an order from me soon ordering their pastry flour. Because a girl needs her biscuits. And if I have enough self-control I might just get a decent pie crust out of it, too.

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Be sure to visit Tropical Traditions at their main site as well as see for yourself how to get some of that wonderful pastry flour.

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Now how about a giveaway? Yay! If you would like an entry to win your OWN 5 lbs bag of Tropical Traditions’s Organic Soft White Wheat then all you need to do is leave a comment! Yep, that is it. There are other ways to get extra entries so keep reading. (And please note, this is NOT for Flour. This bag contains actual wheat berries that you will need a grain mill to grind.)

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Giveaway ends January 29, 2010, at 11:59 PM. Giveaway is only open to residents of the contiguous 48 US states, sorry.