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I have the book:
    _CHRISTMAS FEASTS  From History_
      by Lorna Sass

I got my copy used, for $3.00.  I would definitely pay $3.00 for it.   The
Roman chapter is in translation.  All the rest of the chapters have the
recipe in the original and a modern translation.
IS,
Phillipa

 The contents include:

A Roman Saturnalia Banquet
Recipes:
_Mussels in Liquamen
_Cabbage Salad with Corriander
_Lentils with Chestnuts
_Pork Fricassee with Apricots
_Chicken Fronto (baked chicken with grape sauce)
_Patina of Pears
_Honey Fried Stuffed Dates
_Rose Wine

A Medieval Christmas Feast
Recipes:
_Oystres en Grauey
_Brede
_Chawettys
_Pigge Ffarced
_Sawse Madame
_Caboches in Potage
_Crustade Lombard
_To Make Hippocras

A 17th-Century Christmas Banquet
Recipes:
_To Sawce A Pigge
_To Make Mustard
_To Make Minced Pies of Mutton
_Pastry Crust and Icing
_To Bake a Turkey
_Divers Sallets Boyled
_Excellent Small Cakes
_A Dyschefull of Snow
_Lamb's Wool  (early Wassail)

Christmas In the Pudding Age
Recipes:
_Plum- Porridge for Christmas
_Salmagundy
_A Yorkshire Pudding
_Soulder or Leg of Mutton with Oysters
_An Artichoke Pudding
_A Plum Puding Baked
_Ginger Bread
_To Make a Brandy Posset

A Victorian Christmas
Recipes:
_Oyster Loaves
_To Roast a Goose
_Superlative Mincemeat
_Mince Pies Royale
_Christmas Pudding
_Punch Sauce for Sweet Puddings
_Shrub