Queen's Soup, or Zuppa Regina di Riso, is a rice soup. One recipe is as follows.

Zuppa Regina di Riso (Queen's Soup)

Ingredients

• fowl stock
• ground rice, 1 tablespoon
• milk, 1/2 pint
• butter, 1 ounce

Equipment

• saucepan
• bain-marie
• sieve

Method

• Put a tablespoonful of ground rice into a saucepan
• Gradually add half a pint of milk
• Boil gently for twelve minutes in a bainmarie, stirring the whole time, until very smooth.
• Add an ounce of butter
• Pass through a sieve
• Mix in some good fowl stock
• Serve immediately

Source: The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary.