In a large bowl mix flour, sugar, salt, yeast, vanilla, yolks and melted butter. Add rasins and chopped almond to your taste (keep some almonds to top the bread before baking). To this mix pour continuously tepid milk while stiring all together to reach smooth thicker dough. Knead thoroughly and let rest and rise at warm place for at least one hour or until it doubles the volume. This whole step can be perfectly done with help of bread machine, program "dough".

When the dough is ready divide it to 9 equal parts and create 9 "snakes" of the same lenght. We are braidind 3 levels, first out of 4, then 3 and last on top our of 2.

We will fix braided bread with skewers and let rais again for about 1/2 hour. After that we give it a nice whole egg wash before baking, you can sprinkle some chopped almonds on top as well.

Preheat ove to 395 F / 200 C and bake for 10 minutes - do not open the oven! Lower the temperature to 340 F / 170 C and bake for another 40-45 minutes. Skewers that are holding the bread in position should come out clean.

I strongly recoment using of parchment paper under the bread while baking and parchment paper or tin foil over it so it does not burn while baking thoroughly.