Plaited yeast bread

Something I like to make for Easter...

You need:

500 g flour
80 g sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar
salt
1 egg
1 egg white
250 g single cream
1 sachet dry yeast


1 yolk
1 tbsp. milk


Put flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, egg and egg white into a bowl. Mix dry yeast with the single cream and leave it for some minutes to soak. Then, pour the mixture over the other ingredients and knead until well combined. Leave, covered up, in a warm place for about half an hour. Knead again and divide into four parts, then, form a strand out of each part and make a four-strand braid. Leave in a warm place for half an hour again, then, mix the egg yolk with the milk and spread it on the braid with a baking brush. Bake the yeast bread for about 30 minutes on 180°C.