Shepherd's pie Shepherd's pie Shepherd's pie or cottage pie is a meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato. The recipe has many variations, but the defining ingredients are minced red meat (commonly, "cottage pie" refers to beef and "shepherd's pie" to lamb), cooked in a gravy or sauce with onions and sometimes other vegetables, such as peas, celery or carrots, and topped with a layer of mashed potato before it is baked. The pie is sometimes also topped with grated cheese to create a layer of melted cheese on top. The term "cottage pie" was in use by 1791,
Rabbit pie the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient. Rabbit pie was a staple dish of the American pioneers. Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs. Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional Easter celebrations in the English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire. In Beatrix Potter's children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", the title character's father was put into a rabbit pie for going into Mr McGregor's garden. Rabbit pie Rabbit pie is a game pie consisting of rabbit meat in a gravy with other