How To Cook Jeff's Traditional Cottage Pie - Farmison & Co

Ingredients

• 500g grass-fed beef mince
• beef dripping or oil
• 3 sprigs thyme leaves
• 1 x onion finely diced
• 2 x sticks of celery finely diced
• 2 x carrots peeled & finely diced
• 400ml beef or chicken stock
• 1 tspp. tomato puree
• few drops of Hendersons relish to taste
• 1 tsp. corn flour mixed with a little cold water
• sea salt
• cracked black pepper
• ingredients for the potato mash topping
• 900g old crop potatoes (Maris piper, Desiree or King Edward)
• 75g unsalted butter
• splash of hot milk
• ground wite pepper
• 50g mature cheddar cheese
• 25g fine breadcrumbs