Cookery & other recipes.- Bragge family (of Sadborow Hall, Dorset) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, [c. 1750].

Cookery & other recipes.- Bragge family (of Sadborow Hall, near Thorncombe, Dorset) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 109pp., and 4pp. index at front, index and first 18pp. first 11ff. slightly water-stained not affecting legibility, slightly browned, three large foxing spots on last 2ff., original marbled wrappers, slight water-stain on upper cover, rubbed, faded and creased, lettered direct "Cookery Book" on upper cover, folio, [c. 1750].

⁂ Recipes include: "A Carraway Cake - My Mama"; "To make a Cake Lady Plymouth's Way"; "To make Primrose Wine"; "Turkey a la Dobbe"; "Rasberry Brandy"; "The Nagoue... Take 4 spoonfuls of french Claret and thicken it with flour..."; "A Lark Pye - Withers"; "Dr Meads Bitters"; "Orange Marmalet"; "To make Pastasha Cream"; "To thicken the hair"; "Bitters Sr Edward Hulse [Sir Edward Hulse, first baronet (1682-1759), physician]"; "For a Dropsy Mrs Smith"; "To brew small Beer - Mrs Bere"; "To make the Best Raisin Wine - Mrs Smith"; "To make a fanchurch Pudding"; "To make Shrub" etc.

Provenance: Matthew Bragge, a local clothier bought Sadborow in 1576. The present house was built between 1773 and 1775 by John Johnson, for John Bragge and cost £2,589 2s 4½ d. The estate was sold in 1923 when the last member of the family, Captain John Bragge died in 1922.