Of the above ingredients to prepare sponge dough and give it a good rise.

Divide the dough into 2 parts, knead well so as not to remain bubbles, roll out 1 piece into a rectangle 30*50 cm

Rinse the raisins and pour the boiling water. Softened raisins and the candied fruits chopped with a knife and add to the jam. I used strawberry jam trade mark "Maheev". It is very beautiful, flavorful with chunks of whole berries. Perfect in baking.

The dough grease soft butter and jam. Use half the products, because rolls will be 2.

Roll to roll and put into a form with a hole in the middle seam up. The edges of the loaf to try to put things together. I have a form in diameter 22 see Practice has shown that this is not enough. You need to take a bigger form, inserting in the middle of a heat-resistant container. Jam weigh down the dough, and better, that he had more room to rise breadth.

A similar operation to produce the other half of the dough and lay it on top seam side down.

The dough grease eggs and decorate according to your desire. You can use cooking sugar, candied fruit, almonds, etc. Bake loaf in preheated moderate oven (170-175 degrees) 60-70 minutes.