Article: For Cheese Souffle, it's all in the timing

The first time I ever tucked into a fluffy cheese souffle, I was in a tiny restaurant in Paris called -- what else? -- "Le Souffle." Imagine an entire restaurant devoted to souffles. They offered cheese, vegetable or dessert souffles, each a perfection confection of airy heaven, delivered straight from the kitchen puffed, browned and aromatic.

I taught myself how to make a cheese souffle. I thought it would be difficult, but discovered that once you know how to get your egg whites to the right stiff-white-peak consistency, you've got it nailed.

This recipe is basically a simple white sauce enriched with egg yolk and nutty Swiss cheese. Stiff egg whites are folded right into the mixture. ...

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