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Cheese Soufflé

The original 1910 method for Cheese Soufflé, presented as a faithful archival transcription.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • ½ cup scalded milk
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • Few grains cayenne
  • ¼ cup grated Old English or Young America cheese
  • Yolks 3 eggs
  • Whites 3 eggs

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Melt butter, add flour, and when well mixed add gradually scalded milk. Then add salt, cayenne, and cheese. Remove from fire; add yolks of eggs beaten until lemon-colored. Cool mixture, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Pour into a buttered baking-dish, and bake twenty minutes in a slow oven. Serve at once.

Nutrition pending

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