If it is cottage pie let it be of fresh vegetables and fresh meat—let the cooking be simple but good.
The pattern of eating for children has completely changed compared with the days of cottage pie and stew.
It is used in many recipes including hamburgers and cottage pie.
It also serves pies (cottage pie, shepherd's pie, and others), salads and other traditional dishes.
It can also be added to minced meat for a different-tasting cottage pie or to the mixture for fish cakes, potato cakes, and croquettes.
The term shepherd's pie did not appear until 1877, and since then it has been used synonymously with cottage pie, regardless of whether the principal ingredient was beef or mutton.
