The earliest references to the first recipe here, the steak and kidney pie, appeared in the mid-1800s. For the most part, the art of pie-making can be attributed to both the French and the British.
This only leaves the question: What are the best cuts of steak? Do you go for a melt-in-your-mouth filet mignon, or a hunk of ribeye that would draw the envy of your caveman ancestors? Or perhaps ...