Funny you should ask!

When mum and dad were married, they lived with Dad's folks for 2 years before buying their home. (I came along 2 years after that.) As all Mum's family were in England, all our holidays were spent with the Sicilian side of the family. So those became "our" holiday traditions.

Mum made sherry trifle, bubble & squeak, Yorkshire pudding, and we'd have the Christmas pudding, the one you put brandy on and light it? at home a week or so later. Of course a week after Christmas is New Year's and we were back w/ Dad's side, so we often didn't get the English foods until later in January, lol.

I don't make any of them regularly. Mum was one to shoo everyone out of the kitchen when she was cooking. So I never learned those. I learned the Sicilian foods spending time w/ my Nonna and Nonno, and with my Godmother.

A few years back I DID order an English fruitcake - they are NOTHING like what you find here in the States. They take 4 to 6 months to make as each step soaks in brandy for a month! LOL And it is topped with marzipan icing, YUMMY! We all enjoyed it very much!