Cheese Souffle At The Cavalry & Guards Club

 

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

On Saturday I went to a fine wine lunch organized by my husband at the Cavalry & Guards Club. Each month they have a choice of several menus and my husband chose the one which ended with the cheese souffle, because it sounded different.

We discussed the timing of the start of the meal and speed of service with our liaison person from the kitchen. The chef needed over an hour to make the souffle dessert. 

We timed the start of the meal to be about fifteen minutes after most people had arrived. We had to allow time for serving the meal, serving the wines, eating the meal and clearing away each course. clearing

The cheese souffle was a great success. First of all, it looked stunning. We had two between a table of abut 16 people, 8 per souffle. One of our number on each side of the table volunteered to cut it.

I had expected the cheese soufle to be savoury. However, like cream cheese, it was almost neutral. Not quite as sweet as cheesecake. But with a slight touch of sweetness.

It came with a mustar. 

I and my husband went home discussing whether we could try to make a cheese souffle at home. For our first wedding anniversary we had gone to the Souffle Restaurant in the Intercontintal Hotel in Park Lane. The restaurant is no longer there. For dinner parties we used to make a hidden egg souffle with caulifower and cream sauce in the base, mushrooms, and a white chsse souffle on top with buried egg yoks, enough for one yok per person.

For dessert, in summer, we had made a pavlova, which is whipped egg white with sugar, and fruit in the well or hole in the center or the ring or donut shaped meringue.

The trick with souffles is

1 Do at least one trial run at home first. Preferably, two, or three. If a souffle or anny cake sinks, put decoration in the middle, like a pavlova. 

Now you know. The Cavalry & Guards Club changes its menu. You might have an opportunity to visit if you know somebody who is a member, attend a wedding held there, attend an event anything to do with the armed forces, or horses and carriages worldwide. Or you are a member of a club elsewhere in the world which has a reciprocal arragement. I recommend the food at the Cavalry & Guards Club. 

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