Welsh Rarebit Soufflés

Name: Welsh Rarebit Soufflés
Ingredients: dry English mustard; Worcestershire sauce Tabasco; 225g/8ozreally good mature Cheddar cheese, grated; 4 eggs, separated; 2 large slices of good white bread; salt and freshly ground pepper; salt and freshly ground pepper

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

About

I think nearly everybody enjoys cheese dishes. This is a variation on the original Welsh rarebit which was in fact pure toasted cheese cooked in the oven. It makes a very good supper dish, or when cut into small pieces, an excellent morsel to go with drinks.

Ingredients

225g/8ozreally good mature Cheddar cheese, grated
4 eggs, separated

Main course
Spicy

Method

Place the cheese in a bowl, beat in 3 egg yolks (use the fourth one in something else), a level teaspoon of mustard, a good shake of Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco, and season to taste. Toast the bread. Whip the 4 egg whites until they stand in stiff peaks. Add a spoonful or so to the cheese mixture then gently fold the rest of them into the bowl. Put the toasts into an ovenproof dish and pou