Shepherd's pie when the potato was being introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor (cf. "cottage", meaning a modest dwelling for rural workers). The term "shepherd's pie" did not appear until 1854, and was used synonymously with cottage pie, regardless of whether the meat was beef or mutton. In the United Kingdom, the term "shepherd's pie" is now commonly used when the meat is lamb. In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined on the sides and bottom with mashed potato, as well as having
Shepherd with a Flute execution of the king, it was valued at £30 and sold in 1650 to De Critz and Co. In 1660, on the English Restoration, it was recovered by Charles II of England. It was hung at Whitehall Palace then Kensington Palace, and finally transferred to Hampton Court Palace in 1833, which was already open to the public. It mostly remained there until the Italian Renaissance paintings were moved out in recent years. Shepherd with a Flute Shepherd with a flute, or Boy with a Pipe, is a painting in oil on canvas of perhaps 1510-15, in recent decades usually attributed