This Red Fife Flour Biscuit recipe is incredibly easy and versatile. We love them paired with our homemade jams and plain old butter.

We love to try new ingredients and skills in our kitchen. This led us to start looking into all purpose flour alternatives. As I was researching flours, I was drawn to the benefits of heirloom grains and stone milled flours.

Fortunately for me, I live fairly close to a mill that offers a great variety of heirloom flour and wheat berries. She led me in the direction of giving Red Fife a try.

Since visiting the mill, we have used this flour almost daily. It has such a unique and delicious flavor that I love. It gives my Sourdough Discard Jam Bars a great taste and moisture!

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What is Red Fife?

Red Fife Flour is a whole wheat flour that originated from a grain in Scotland. It was brough to Canada 170 years ago and is said to be Canada’s oldest wheat variety. Red Fife Flour is stone ground at low temperatures to preserve the nutrients and flavor. Its flavor is nutty and complex.

How to use Red Fife Flour?

Red Fife is a great alternative to recipes made with all purpose flour. With the high gluten potential, it mixes well with low gluten flours.

This flour has softer gluten strength, this flour is great in cookies, pastries, and pizza dough.

Benefits

This flour is a good source of thiamin, niacin, magnesium, copper, Vit E and iron. As with most heirloom flours, Red Fife is highly digestible do to not undergoing extensive hybridization.

Baking Tips

I recommend adjusting your liquid content in your recipes. Red Fife absorbs moisture more effectively compared to other flours.

Experiment mixing with your other flours to figure out what works best for you and your baking needs. Your textures will differ depending on how you combine with different flours.

Where to Buy

I highly recommend checking out West Country Mills. West Country Mills offers endless information. And they offer shipping within Canada and the USA.

Red Fife Flour Drop Biscuits

Delicious Red Fife Flour drop biscuits.

Print Recipe

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Ingredients

2 cup Red fife flour
2 tbsp Baking powder
1 tsp Salt
6 tbsp Unsalted butter
3/4 cup Milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 420℉
Mix dry ingredients together in bowl.
Cut butter into small sized pieces.
Slowly mix butter into dry ingredients. Crumbly pea sized pieces should form.
Slowly pour milk into the mixed. Mix until ingredients are incorporated.
Drop golf ball sized pieces onto a cast iron pan or cookie sheet.
Gently press down each dough ball with a fork.
Bake for approximately 12 minutes or until the bottoms are golden brown.

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