Hungarian White Bread with Fennel Seeds

Hungarians are known as premier bread bakers. Hungarian wheat is grown on the fertile Great Hungarian Plain that sweeps two thousand miles east from the Transylvanian Alps. Up until World War II, this wheat was treated like gold in Europe and exported to destinations all over the Continent. Hungarian flours are graded from coarse to fine and there is a saying “if you can make strudel out of it, then it is good flour for bread, crêpes, and noodles.” The kenyér, or “daily bread,” in th