What you'll need:
400g (14.11 oz) of flour
1/2 cube of yeast (so half the amount you would use for a normal bread, I suppose)
150 ml (5.07 fl oz) milk
40g (1.4 oz) sugar
a pinch of salt
50g (1.76 oz) butter
1/2 grated lemon (the outside of it - the "skin"?)
1 egg, for on top
What you do:
Put flour into bowl, make a dent in the middle and crumble the yeast into it. Then add the rest of the ingredients and knead until you have a nice firm dough "ball". It should have about the consistency of your ear lobe and it should NOT be sticky. Then cover and let rise (like you do with the cinnamon buns - probably best in the oven where it's actually warm... here where we have no central heat and air, in the summer it's hot enough inside and in the winter I can put it on the heater) for 15 minutes. Knead again. Then divide into three equal parts and roll into strands (I make mine I guess about as thick as a nickle) and then braid. Put onto a greased baking pan, cover with a damp cloth and then let rise for another 30 minutes (this is where it really should rise a lot). Meanwhile preheat your oven to 392°F. Put the egg into a small bowl, whisk it, and then use a brush (we have them for putting icing on, I don't know if you have something like that) to brush the egg onto the bread. You can omit the egg, but then it doesn't look as nicely "brown" on top :) Place the bread into the preheated oven and bake for about 25 minutes.
I usually double the recipe just because then I can use my entire cube of yeast.
This bread goes really well with apple butter and other jams and jellies :)
