Homemade Bread trying to crumble when making french toast

[qtkitty]

Anyone have any tips for keeping homemade bread from crumbling when making french toast..... or a bread recipe that makes bread strong enough to hold up to french toast making ?

[bee9984]

Lightly toast your bread first and then put it in your french toast mixture.

It really does work

[Ceashels]

I find that if I give my breads a 2nd or even 3rd rise they have more time to develop gluten and are less crumbly.

I have also noticed that freezing my dough before the first rise gives me a very elastic dough when I thaw it out.

Hope it helps.

[Dancing Lotus]

Ceashels tips are good, they will probably help.

But I always slice my bread and lay it out on the counter the night before. The key to good French toast is dry bread. Thats what the "original" receipt was for. It was a way to use stail bread. Trust me on this, try it just once and you will see what I mean.

[Ceashels]

I've never dried my bread for french toast. I'll have to give it a whirl sometime. Thanks for the tip.