Tim Johnson

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Shepherd's pie

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Shepherd's pie (Cottage pie) refers to a British or Irish meat pie made with beef mince and with a crust made from mashed potato. In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined with mashed potato as well as having a mashed potato crust on top. There is now a popular tendency for "shepherd's pie" to be used when the meat is mutton or lamb, with the suggested origin being that shepherds are concerned with sheep and not cattle. This may, however, be an example of folk etymology.