No-Bake Arabic Bread Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 slices white bread, old (if you don't have old bread, toast fresh bread)
2 cups double cream or 2 cups single cream
4 cups milk
cardamom powder (optional)
3 tablespoons rose water
5 teaspoons cornflour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup pistachios, chopped
sugar syrup
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon saffron thread
1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
2/3 cup water
1/2 lemon, juice of

Preparation

Cut the crusts off the bread.
Butter a glass dish and place the toast in the bottom of the dish. Make one layer across the bottom of the dish then pour the sugar syrup over the bread.
In a sauce pan, pour the cream, 3 1/4 cups milk, sugar, cardamom, rosewater and the sugar and keep stirring while bringing to boil. Make sure all the sugar is dissolved.
Add cornflour to the remaining milk and stir until no lumps are left.
When the milk and cream mixture is boiling, add the cornflour mixture and keep stirring until thick.
Pour mixture over the bread.
Make another layer with any remaining bread and decorate with the nuts.
Place in the fridge and leave to cool.