Whip the egg whites until fluffy and beat the egg yolks with the sugar for 5 minutes. Mix the flour, the aniseed and the salt with the egg yolks and a few tablespoons of water; stir in the egg whites. Grease a loaf tin and sprinkle half of the fennel seeds on the bottom. Put the dough in the tin and sprinkle the rest of the fennel seeds on top. Bake 45 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius.

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Mix flour, milk, butter, yeast and salt and knead 10 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and knead one minute more. Allow the dough to rise one hour. Knead it a little and put it in a greased bread pan. Allow it to rise one hour And bake the bread 30 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.