Queens Soup

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

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon ground rice
  • ½ pint (285 ml) milk
  • 1 oz (30 g) butter
  • Fowl (poultry) stock
Queens Soup

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Equipment

  • Saucepan
  • Bain-marie
  • Sieve

Procedure

  1. Put the ground rice into a saucepan. Gradually add the milk.
  2. Cook gently for 12 minutes in a bain-marie, stirring the whole time, until very smooth.
  3. Add the butter, and pass through a sieve.
  4. Mix the fowl stock, and serve immediately.

References

  • This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.