Subject_Meat5314 t1_j49074m wrote on January 14, 2023 at 12:14 AM

The recipes without 100’s of ads you’re forced to scroll through are suspect.

That said, I grew up in Maine but my mom never would have made a shepherd’s pie without lamb without calling out that it wasn’t really shepherd’s pie. I don’t recall the term cottage pie being used instead. That said my mom lived in England for part of her childhood so maybe that explains it?

marrymejojo OP t1_j493kgk wrote on January 14, 2023 at 12:39 AM

That makes sense. I almost feel like the term "cottage pie" was just invented by the "you can't call that Shepherds pie crowd". That makes sense your mom said that. I think the name and the recipe changed in the US or at least in the northeast. Obviously because we don't have lamb, we have beef.