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My family and the people in my hometown in WV (largely composed of Italian Americans whose ancestors immigrated from Southern Italy) have been making these delectable doughnuts for years. They are simply a yeast dough which is deep-fried and then dusted with granulated sugar. My family calls them fritti. In fact, everyone in my hometown calls them fritti. Fritto in Italian is the past tense for the verb, friggere, which means to fry. It is also a noun that means fried food. Fritti is the plural of fritto. Ive searched many Italian cookbooks and the internet for recipes for Italian doughnuts with the name fritti and found none. So I believe that fritti isnt their authentic Italian name but a name given to them by Italian Americans. I did find several other names for these heavenly fried rings of dough - bomboloni, bombe fritte, grispelle, grispedde, crespelle, vecchiarelle, zeppole, and cuddurieddi. All recipes are similar and each yields a slightly different version of my familys version of fritti. Regardless of what you call them, they are delicious and best eaten hot or warm. They will forever remind me of home. I sent mom the recipe...This has to be grandma Mazzas...God I miss these
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:39:42 +0000

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