Budino

{{Short description|Italian dessert}}

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| country = Italy

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| type = Custard or pudding

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{{lang|it|Budino}} ({{literally|pudding}}) is a sweet Italian dessert, usually rich and creamy like a custard or pudding. Like the English word 'pudding', {{lang|it|budino}} originally referred to a type of medieval sausage. It can be thickened with cornstarch or cookies to make it more like a soufflé or ganache, and it can be sauced with various flavors, including chocolate, caramel, apple, and butterscotch.{{cite book|title=Weir Cooking in the City: More Than 125 Recipes and Inspiring Ideas for Relaxed Entertaining|author=Joanne Weir|author2=Penina Meisels (photographer)|page=[https://archive.org/details/weircookingincit00joan/page/266 266]|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7432-4663-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/weircookingincit00joan/page/266|publisher=Simon & Schuster}}{{cite book|title=Try This: Traveling the Globe Without Leaving the Table|author=Danyelle Freeman|isbn=978-0-06-209217-5|publisher=HarperCollins}}{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Jewish Food|author1=Gil Marks|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=August 25, 2010|page=77|isbn=978-0-470-39130-3}}