Default User wrote:
> caroline wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" wrote
>>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:49:05 -0000, "caroline"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Dora" wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Well, it's different - but creativity is what it's all about!
>>>>> Glad you enjoyed it. FWIW, shepherd's pie is topped with the
>>>>> mashed potato, rather than layered, but if you liked it that's
>>>>> all that counts. Dora
>>>>
>>>> I believe Shepherd's Pie is also made with lamb mince...the clue
>>>> is in the name ;-)
>>>>
>>> Americans don't eat much lamb and although my family ate more lamb
>>> than most, my mother only made it with beef.
>>
>> Then, in my opinion, what she made was Cottage Pie, not Shepherd's
>> Pie.
>
> You are entitled to that opinion. My mother made shepard's pie. With
> ground beef. We'd never heard of "cottage pie".

Calling it Shepard's Pie is fine, as long as Shepard was a rancher.