Hungarian Split Farmhouse Loaf

Name: Hungarian Split Farmhouse Loaf
Yield: Makes One Loaf
Cuisine: Hungarian
Ingredients: 275 ml/9 fl oz/1⅛ cups lukewarm water; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter, melted; 2.5 ml/½ tsp fennel seeds, crushed; 15 ml/1 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 20 g/¾ oz fresh yeast; 1 egg white; pinch of salt; 10 ml/2 tsp fennel seeds, for sprinkling; 450 g/1 lb/4 cups unbleached white bread flour; 10 ml/2 tsp salt

Preparation info

Makes
One
Loaf

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

Topped with fragrant fennel seeds, this moist white loaf is particularly delicious when it is slathered with butter and jam.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb/4 cups unbleached white bread flour
10

Europe
Hungary
Eastern Europe
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the white bread flour and salt together into a large bowl and stir in the crushed fennel seeds and caster sugar.
Cream the yeast with a little of the lukewarm water, then stir in the remaining water. Make a well at the centre of the flour and pour in the yeast, using your fingers to gradually combine with flour from the edge of the well until a batter form