Home Cooking
How do I make true shepards pie? My new husband is from england and I want to make him some home cooking!?
Any other ENGLISH recipes would be appreciated as well!
Oh dear! I’m from England and I make shepherds pie this way: use lamb (beef is for “cottage pie”); brown in in a frying pan. Add chopped onions and fry gently until soft. Add chopped carrot and celery (optional); a little stock and red wine (wine is optional, too), and a chopped, peeled tomato too, if you like, then simmer gently for about one hour. Pile it into an ovenproof serving dish. Make plenty of creamy mashed potato, fluff up the top, then brown it in a hot oven until it is golden and hot.
Try giving him a good Sunday roast, too! With roast potatoes, gravy, and all the trimmings – apple sauce for pork, horseradish/mustard and yorkshire puddings with beef, and bread sauce with chicken or turkey.
Extra: as with all “national” dishes, every matriarch has her own way of making them, and swears it’s the only way! Shepherds Pie is unquestionably made with lamb – think of the name – and Cottage Pie is the same but made with beef. Another respondent was right: ask how his mother makes it! You will find even the best chefs in the UK say their version is the best. (Thanks also to the person who said I should know!) Variations may include garlic, which I love, and perhaps mixed herbs, but these probably wouldn’t have been used in ordinary family cooking. The same goes for the red wine, which I think adds richness and a good depth of flavour. The pie used to be a good way of using up any leftover meat from the Sunday roast. Adding vegetables makes it go further and adds more flavour.
Pasties, quoted here, are presumably Cornish Pasties, and the same rules apply. Originally they were made for the miners (of tin) to take down the mines for lunch, and a thick edge of pastry was required for their dirty hands to hold while they ate them and then discard. They were meant to contain a whole meal: meat, potatoes and vegetables. Generally, most Cornish cooks stipulate that the meat (beef) should be raw, as should the potatoes, swede or turnip and onions. Use plenty of seasoning.
Really, I do agree that you should ask your husband (and his mother!) what he would like! Other English suggestions could include apple pie with custard (creme anglaise in the cookery books); fruit crumble (apple, rhubarb, etc) with custard; sausage and mash; fish and chips… Please feel free to email me if you’d like any recipes; English cooking, as done in the home, is actually very good!
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