Traditional Cornish Stargazy Pie vs Bauernfrühstück (German Farmer's Breakfast)

Both dishes rely on potato, onion, butter and egg, yet handle them in very different ways. The stargazy pie mashes its potatoes with butter and milk into a creamy layer, adds softened onions and quartered hard-boiled eggs, and bakes it all with whole pilchards or sardines inside golden shortcrust pastry. Bauernfrühstück instead fries dried potato cubes in butter and rendered bacon fat until crisp and golden, adds lightly caramelized onions, and sets whisked eggs over everything in the skillet, finished with fresh parsley. One is layered, baked and creamy; the other is crisp, savory and pan-cooked.