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