How to Make Fine Texture Bread

There is nothing like the smell and taste of homemade bread to give your house a warm and welcome feeling. If you do not have the time to make bread by hand, there are many bread machines on the market today to do the work for you. However, a bread machine is not necessary to make a delicious fine texture bread.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Choose all purpose flour for making your bread to create a fine texture. Bread flour, or specialty flour such as wheat or rye produces heavier textured bread.

2. Measure your flour carefully, following the guidelines on the bread recipe you are using. Extra flour in bread gives it a heavier texture.

3. Use only enough flour as is necessary to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands and work surfaces to create a fine texture. Again, excess flour, whether added when mixing the dough of when kneading it makes the bread heavier.

4. Punch the dough down for consecutive kneading and rising as quickly as possible after your first rising. Bread that has been allowed to over-rise is coarser in texture.

5. Allow the bread to rise 3 times, instead of only 2. Although most recipes tell you to let the dough rise twice, a third rising makes the texture finer.

Tips & Warnings

• Adding mashed potatoes, and some of the water the potatoes were cooked in is another trick for making fine texture bread. Be sure to decrease the amount of water you add to dough proportionate to the amount of potatoes you are adding. Instant mashed potatoes can also be used with a similar result.

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