Incredibly slow outbound HTTPS requests

[Jeff]

I am using Node 0.12.2 with Express 4.13.3 as the frontend for a RESTful layer. Calling the API's from cURL/Postman takes ~9ms. However, using Request 2.60.0 to make the call from Node, it takes ~60ms. These are HTTPS calls. Removing HTTPS and using just HTTP brings Node down to ~7ms. Both the curl/Postman calls and the Node.js calls are happening on the same machine in the same environment under no load. I cannot seem to find what's causing Node to be so much slower than everything else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.