I love me some shepherd’s pie…
I’ve made it with beef, lamb, pork - never tried minced chicken or turkey, vegetarian options (mushroom and eggplant is great).
On of the best things I ever bought was a giant baking pan - far too big for our 4-person family. That means whenever I make it, there is always heaps of leftovers (and there’s only one thing better than today’s shepherd’s pie…)
You are of course speaking of Cottleston Pie.
If it was made with goose it would Gosherd’s Pie. Only term I can find for a turkey herder is ‘turkey herder’, so it’s Turkey Herder’s Pie.
**Rhiannon8404 **notes that turkeys are native to the New World, so the dish in question should be called American Pie.
The best of all of them is Fisherman’s Pie.
Star-gazer pie, with whole fishes? Heads poking out looking up, and maybe tails, too. That’s a whole different thing from a casserole with mashed potatoes.
At least we know the British have a naming standard for some things after all:
Steak and kidney pie
Steak pie
Steak and mushroom pie
[all 100% descriptive]
The older of the two terms is cottage pie which OED defines as “a dish of minced beef baked under mashed potatoes” with a first cite from 1791.
Shepherd’s pie has a more general definition as regarding the main ingredient, “a pie consisting of chopped meat and potatoes, covered with a crust of mashed potatoes browned”, the earliest cite they give being 1877.
Never heard of that one. What’s in it?
You have but one shot at guessing.
Kidneys?
Echidnas?
Small nitpick - stargazy pie. It has a pastry top, not mash.