When made from scratch with the right bread, French toast sticks taste fresh and have an incredible pillowy feel. For the best homemade French toast sticks, nothing works better than brioche bread.

The simplest dishes, like French toast ... to make the bread-soaking mixture. The other batter called for all of the same ingredients, but with the added flour. The basic recipe was a breeze ...

The recipe here is based on an early 18th-century English bread called “French bread.” The only change I’ve made is cutting back on the eggs from three to one (the original is more like a ...