Bread Pudding (Double Ka Meeta)

Ingredients:

1 loaf bread (small)
1 loaf bread (small)
500 gms sugar
250 gms cream
250 gms clarified butter
100 gms chopped and roasted cashew nuts
100 gms almonds (soaked and chopped fine)
10 gm saffron

Method:
Cut each bread slice into four pieces. Fry them in clarified butter till golden brown. Make a sugar syrup by adding half a litre of water to the sugar and boil it for 15 minutes. Dissolve saffron in milk and add to the sugar syrup. Boil milk until it is thickened.Arrange the fried bread pieces on a flat tray and sprinkle the chopped nuts on them. Pour the milk, double cream and sugar syrup alternately over the bread pieces while they are still hot.Refrigerate. Cut and serve as dessert.