The holiday offerings on my in-laws table usually feature budín, a bread pudding that can include coconut, raisins, or pine nuts. Budín can be made 1,000 different ways depending on the ingredients on hand, or your preferences.

Budín is probably one of the oldest concoctions from Europe, and is typically a conglomerate of chopped ingredients (differing from our smooth U.S. version of pudding, which is really a confectioner’s pastry creme.) The word budín and pudding are both based on an old German word meaning “swollen lump.”