Om Ali

I first ate this at Ali Baba, an Egyptian restaurant in London to which I was taken by Claudia Roden, about 10 years ago. How I remembered it, when I came to cook it myself, was as a kind of Egyptian bread-and-butter pudding; certainly, the idea is the same. Filo pastry is buttered and baked, then layered with nuts and dried fruit in a dish into which you pour cream-enriched sweetened milk before baking it aga