A sumptuous repast

Wilhelmina Rawson, Mrs. Lance Rawson’s cookery book and household hints (Rockhampton Qld.: William Hopkins, 1886), v.

Wilhelmina Rawson was an adventurous cook and not at all squeamish about what ended up in her cooking pot. In her cookbooks she called for the Australian housewife living in the bush to make the most of the abundant edible wildlife available to her. Kangaroos, bush turkeys and bandicoots were more than just foods of last resort, they were, according to Rawson a ‘sumptuous repast not far from her kitchen’.