Russian Sweet Bread

Description
In Romanian: Cozonaci rusesti

Ingredients
For 2 lbs/1 kg flour:
 * 22 yolks,
 * 1/2 lb/250 g melted butter,
 * 1 tablespoon oil,
 * 1 tablespoon honey,
 * 1 cup milk,
 * 10 oz/300 g confectioner's sugar,
 * grated peel from 1/2 lemon and 1/2 orange,
 * 1/4 ground vanilla stick,
 * 3 oz/80 g yeast,
 * salt,
 * butter and bread crumbs for the pan,
 * egg for washing the dough

Directions

 * 1) Over the yeast mixed with 1 teaspoon of Sugar, pour 2-3 tablespoons tepid milk and add 2-3 tablespoons of flour.
 * 2) Mix everything very well. Cover and leave in a warm spot.
 * 3) In the meantime, in a large bowl, pour the scalded milk over 3-4 tablespoons of flour, mixing very well.
 * 4) Cover with a cloth and let cool off.
 * 5) When it is only a little warm, add the previously made starter, which has risen.
 * 6) Mix well, sprinkle some flour on top, cover and leave again in a warm spot until well risen.
 * 7) In the meantime, beat the yolks with the Sugar in a bowl sitting in a bowl with hot water.
 * 8) When the Sugar is melted and the mixture warm, pour, a little at a time, over the starter, also adding a little flour, salt, vanilla, lemon and orange peel.
 * 9) Mix everything very well to make a homogenuous paste.
 * 10) Sprinkle some flour on top, cover and let rise again in a warm place.
 * 11) Now you start kneading, adding tepid melted butter, tepid oil and tepid honey.
 * 12) Keep kneading until the dough starts to easily come off your hands.
 * 13) Cover and let rise until it triples in bulk.
 * 14) Then take a piece of dough and place in the pan, greased and sprinkled with bread crumbs.
 * 15) Fill only 1/3 of the pan with dough.
 * 16) Cover and leave in a warm spot until it almost fill the whole pan.
 * 17) Wash the surface of the dough with an egg-water mixture and set into the oven, first at slow heat until it rises some more, then increase the heat to medium.
 * 18) On the average, it should be baked for 1 hour.
 * 19) Test with a cake tester.
 * 20) When it is done, remove from the pan and onto a cloth and let cool off.