Larry Short

Google it! Shepherds Pie is from Scotland, the first documented recording from an English cookbook in the 1800s accredits Scotland to the dish. Also FYI, Scotland is a founding member of Britain, the term British only started when the Scottish and English crowns united I.e to be the United Kingdom of Great Britain. After all the English and Scottish flags overlapped make the British flag, there has been numerous Scottish prime ministers of Britain. There’s not been a king of England since the 1500s, the kings queens are the king of Great Britain. The same king James 6th to Scotland became king James 1st of England to unite the crowns. Same one who translated the Bible to English from Latin and set of the mayflower. Before that people were English or welsh or Scottish etc, not British. British is the collective term for the people from the whole island. It sounds ignorant and racist to say it only applies to English people.

It was a bit more work than I expected (but I am a beginning cook). The meat/veggie mixture turned out more watery that I expected. I would add more flour or cornstarch to the butter mix.

This recipe was a hit. I used a bit of half & half to help thin out the potatoes so they would spread easily.

I really liked this. I made a couple of substitutes due to what I had on hand (beef instead of lamb, and a mix of cauliflower and potato mash since I didn’t have enough potato) so wasn’t true to the recipe and the intended flavours, but I’m confident as written this is still good. Plan to make it again as intended in the recipe as well.