Creamy Pudding with Mace and Cardamom

Known as ravo in the Parsi community, this lush dessert is smooth and creamy, subtly aromatic with rose water, cardamom, and mace and utterly delicious. It’s one member of the family of subcontinental sweets that are made from cooked-down milk, as rice pudding is, except that here the thickener is not rice but a little semolina (coarsely ground, not semolina flour). You need to leave yourself an hour and a half for the cooking, but in fact it’s best if you make the pudding ahe