Almond Kulich - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 kg flour
1/2 liter milk
60 g yeast
5 eggs
200 g sugar
300 g butter
200 g peeled almonds
150 g raisins
1 lemon
salt

Preparation

Bring milk to boil and cool down. Dissolve yeast in a part of milk, add 1 tb sugar. Stir in flour in the rest of milk, add yeast and mix thoroughly. Cover with towel and put in a warm place to rise til doubled.
Kulich dough must be \"coddled\" and \"cherished\", the temperature of the dough must not less than 29-30\u00b0C
Beat up 5 yolks with the rest of sugar. Melt butter, chop finely a lemon and a half of almonds. Add yolks, melted butter, chopped almonds and lemon, raisins, salt to the risen dough.
At the end stir in beaten to a white foam egg-whites. Knead the dough carefully upside down.
Grease the form for Kulich with soft butter, sprinkle with flour and pour in the dough half. Leave in a room to rise. When the dough is up to the top of the pan, brush the top with yolk and sprinkle with almonds. Bake in the oven 180\u00b0C The duration of baking depends on the size of Kulich and can last 1-2 hours.