To think you do not cook cottage pie like this?

[Louie92]

A freind was saying that she boils her mincemeat before putting in the oven.
I always fry mine.
How do you do your cottage/shepherds pie?

Mince browning not as contentious just 3 pages.

I simmer it. I never boil it.

I always remember what we were told at school - a boiling stew is a spoiling stew

MrsJayy that's because every right thinking person browns mince, whichever way they do it, before it goes in the oven.

Stunned to discover some people don't like shepherd's/cottage pie! I feel about the same as I did when I first met someone who didn't like Fawlty Towers.

Mince rinsing is an odd idea. Let's hope nobody gets onto the subject of washing chicken, which I seem to recall rumbled on for days and days the last time it came up ...

Tom Kerridge also rinsed the mince in the episode where he roasted it. Groo,

I don't use mince for shepherds or cottage pie, I make it when there is leftover roast lamb or beef and so the meat is already cooked. I put the cold roast meat in a food processor with any leftover roasted carrots, onions and parsnips and then mix the lot with leftover gravy (or make a new batch of gravy) top with mashed spuds and into the oven.

flaming,

That sounds delicious.