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Soft White Spring
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Soft White Spring is a spring-sown soft white class of Triticum aestivum with low protein and tender gluten, grown where winters are too severe for reliable winter soft white or where spring calendars fit local systems. Kernels are pale and soft-milling, producing bright flour for cakes, cookies, crackers, and soft noodles. Culinary use mirrors other soft whites: fine pastry flour, chemical-leavened baking, light batters, and mild whole-grain porridge from cracked or rolled berries. Fermented doughs stay soft and extensible; bakers often blend Soft White Spring with harder classes when loaf structure is required.
Also known as: Intermountain Soft White Spring, Soft white spring milling wheat, Soft white spring flour for cakes and noodles
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History
Spring-sown soft white types were developed for northern and irrigated districts unsuitable for winter soft wheat.
Soft White Spring was recognised within US white-wheat market reporting distinct from winter soft white.
Pacific Northwest and intermountain breeding refined Soft White Spring for pastry and export noodle markets.
Soft White Spring lots supplied specialty cake and cookie millers seeking pale, low-protein flour.
Quality programmes tracked cookie spread, ash, and colour for Soft White Spring contracts.
Soft White Spring remained a niche but important soft-flour source alongside winter soft white.