Macaroni with a Soufflé Top

Macaroni cheese was a much-loved British dish in the eighteenth century. It was also one that early settlers took with them to America, where it was enthusiastically adapted and became more American than British (and very different from the original). This version, with a soufflé top, comes from English Country House Cooking, recipes collected between the wars from cooks at country houses. It originated with Viscount Dalrymple, a Scottish peer who was