Soufflé Lord Curzon

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe

By Annie Gray and Andrew Hann

Published 2020

  • About

This recipe is one of a series with names attached to them, and given its position in the manuscript, it must have been written down by Avis in the mid 1870s. There was no Lord Curzon at the time, but the likely person referred to is Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 8th Baronet and 4th Baron Scarsdale, whose family name was Curzon but whose title was Lord Scarsdale. His lands were in Derbyshire, where he was the rector of Kedleston. Avis’ employers m