Home Frog's 'Kitchen Companion' is not Mr. Chad nor is it a greedy and noisy cockatoo; rather, it stands as a blog profoundly influenced by a plethora of historic cookbooks. Notable among these are 'Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book,' 'Warne's Everyday Cookery by Mary Jewry,' and the notable work of Australia's Wilhelmina Rawson. In her book ‘Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book’ (1878), Rawson explicitly stated that it was "...written entirely for the Colonies, and for the middle classes, and for those people who cannot afford to buy a Mrs. Beeton or a Warne, but who can afford the three shillings for this." In that period, the act of copying recipes was rife, a practice that would be heavily scrutinised and frowned upon in the contemporary culinary world. The abundance of cookbook authors in both past and present times has made it nearly impossible to avoid duplicating recipes. Many of the recipes in this blog reflect what was eat...
