Hello,

I recently had a bread procured from a neighborhood store made by kings road, like italian/french, darl, almost burnt thick crust, light, soft interior.

My wife loves this stuff. I found a standard Italian recipe in my breadman book but left out the herbs, ran it through the breadman on french cycle until final rise when i took the dough out, had to add extra flour as it was too sticky to handle, (made a note to add more flour next time) shaped it into a narrow and long loaf, let it rise , brushed it with plain water, cooked until medium brown crust in oven on pizza stone at 425F.

It came out really good so i was pleased with result but still need some suggestions to increase crust thickness, should i use higher temperature, (my oven can go to 550F)?

Michael