Milk and Bread Pudding (Aish el Saraya)

Lebanese milk and bread pudding called aish el saraya is a sweet delight. We loved it to end our Lebanese feast with a cup of Arabic coffee. The dessert is made with either a biscuit or bread. It is soaked with syrup made with sugar and flavored with orange blossom and rose water. It is then topped with a milk custard that is also flavored with orange blossom and rose water, along with mastic. A pebble like ingredient that when ground is used in many baked dishes. It adds a lovely woodsy almost pine like flavor to the custard that is delicious. The dish is topped with pistachio nuts and served with the same syrup the bread was soaked with. It is easy to make and super delicious. It keeps several days in the refrigerator if you have any left, which I doubt. Yum!