My mom‘s condos used to fall apart and she always blamed it on American bread lol then when my nephews were born, my mom started carrying whole milk in the house when we use the whole milk the Cannes did not fall apart. I think it’s because it needs that fat to bind it that’s in the milk so I don’t know if you’re using low fat or fat free but make sure you use whole milk and I just buy the French bread at the stores. I let it set for two days and then I slice it my mom always sliced them. She never made them in cubes, but that was the problem we had it needed the fat to bind it and this recipe also has the butter I don’t do bacon and I don’t do the beef broth. I just use water, but I still use the butter that they cook the bacon in. I just use that amount of butter in the recipe to make sure that fat bin set so doublecheck the milk. It has a lot to do with it and also make sure that you’re not boiling it too high because the boiling water can actually help them fall apart so but even when they fell apart, we ate and we didn’t care if they were still good lol just not as pretty.

Great easy recipe.

My grandmother would use the leftover gravy put it in a skillet and slice up the dumplings and heat them up.