Viennese Braid

==Description==
In Romanian: Colac vienez
==Ingredients==
=== Sweet bread dough ===
* 2 lbs / 1 kg flour
* 10 oz / 300 g sugar
* 1½ cups milk
* 6 eggs
* 2 oz / 50 g yeast
* 7 oz / 200 g butter
* 2 tablespoons oil
* vanilla stick
* salt
* egg for washing the dough
* grease for the pans
=== Filling ===
* 6 oz / 150 g butter
* 6 oz / 150 g confectioner's sugar
* vanilla
* 3 tablespoons cubed sugared orange peel
==Directions==
=== Sweet bread dough ===
# Make a starter from yeast and a teaspoon of sugar. 
# Mix until the consistency of sour cream, add 2 – 3 tablespoons tepid milk, a little flour and mix well; sprinkle some flour on top, cover and let sit in a warm place to rise. 
# Boil the milk with the vanilla stick (cut in very small pieces) and leave it on the side of the range, covered, to keep warm. 
# Mix the yolks with the sugar and salt, then slowly pour the tepid milk, stirring continuously. 
# Place the risen starter in a large bowl and pour, stirring continuously, the yolk-milk mixture and some flour, a little at a time. 
# Then add 3 whipped egg whites. When you finish this step, start kneading. 
# Knead, adding melted butter combined with oil, a little at a time, until the dough starts to easily come off your palms. 
# Cover with a cloth and then something thicker (like a blanket). 
# Leave in a warm place to triple in bulk. 
# If during kneading the dough seems too hard, you may add a little milk. 
# If, on the contrary, the dough seems too soft, you may add a little flour. 
# When the dough has risen well, take a piece of it, place on the floured work surface, give it the desired shape (round, oval, braided, etc.) and place in the baking pan previously greased with butter. 
# Let rise some more in the pan in a warm place.
=== Filling ===
# Mix the butter with the sugar and vanilla until creamy.
# Refrigerate.
=== Assembly ===
# Roll a square shaped sheet of dough, about a finger thick.
# Then spread the butter mixture, uniformly, over the dough.
# Sprinkle the orange peel on top.
# Then fold the dough three ways (three-fold), so that the right third comes over the left third.
# Cut it lengthwise in three equal strips and braid.
# Join the ends securely and arrange the braid in a round pan that was covered with buttered paper.
# Let it rise a little in the pan and then set into the oven, at low heat, until well risen, then at medium heat.
# Remove from the pan after is has cooled off.
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