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Thread #29353   Message #373854
Posted By: Penny S.
13-Jan-01 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: what's the difference between...?
Subject: RE: BS - what's the difference between.....
Can't smell - anosmic. No common word, apparently.

I was taught that cottage pie had the potato in slices to look like a roof - and our shepherds pie was Tuesday. After roast on Sunday, cold on Monday. When we became better off, Mum switched to fresh mince. These are folk dishes, and subject to folk process. It is what is done in your family. In the supermarkets, shepherds is lamb, and cottage is beef. There is now a further variation - Cumberland pie, which is beef except when it is a chicken or salmon Cumberland. Anyone know the definition of this?

Penny