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
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