Shepherd's pie describes a pie made with minced lamb or mutton topped with mashed potato and baked. The term originated in the late nineteenth century.
It is a version of cottage pie, which is made from minced beef topped with potato; that term goes back to the eighteenth century.
The dates these names were introduced to English by no means indicates this was when the dish was first cooked; these types of pie would've been cooked long before that, but these were the first recorded instances of the names found to date.
The explanation for the different terms is that shepherd's pie is so named because it contains lamb and therefore would have been cooked by shepherds. This is probably not true. The term cottage pie is thought to have arisen because the combination of minced (ground) leftover meat and potatoes, which were cheap, might have been attractive to rural peasants who lived in cottages, as poor people did back then.
Today, both terms are used for any dish made with a layer of meat topped with mashed potato and baked.
Shepherd's pie is a traditional baked dish of ground or diced meat with a crust of mashed potatoes.
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The clue is in the name. A shepherd's pie is ground lamb covered with mashed potatoes. A similar dish, made with ground beef, is called a 'cottage pie'.
it was a home made creation in the country sides of Europe and they called it cottage pie because they ate it when on vacation in there cottages
Because it is made using minced lamb or mutton as the meat.
Shepherds pie is a dish that contains a meat sauce (usually minced lamb, onion, seasoning, etc) and topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is exactly the same except is uses minced beef.
maybe it was created by shepards :D
Cottage pie doesn't contain shepherd
cottage pie is a pie with cottage sheese
Cottage pie is a beef version of Sheperds Pie (which is lamb). Cottage pie is sometimes called Cowboy Pie.
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Cottage pie was originally made in England. were in england
Cottage pie is healthy when eaten in moderation. Ofcourse it has little bit of sugar in it but that's ok
Cottage pic is the same as shepherds pie, you add minced beef and onion and very small carrot, you can also add peas and some stock with thickening agent.
hahaha its cottage pie or like ripe pie or somethin
Cottage pie ideally goes well with a low tannin red wine that either has very little or no oak influence.For example, Beaujolais.is a great combination for cottage pie.
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shepard's pie = cottage pie (pronounced cótach pai)
vegetation cottage pie
This actually depends on where you live.Originally the dish was called Cottage Pie that was used as far back as 1791 and the meat source in the pie was any meat source that was available at the time.The term Shepherds pie did not make an appearance until 1877 and it's been used synonymously with the term Cottage Pie regardless of whether the meat was beef or mutton.In the UK, Cottage pie is typically made with beef, while Shepherds pie is made with lamb.In North America, Shepherd's pie is made with beef, and the term Cottage pie is very rarely used.