Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Fisk’s Feeters (Fried Dough)

Carlton Fisk hit his famous home run against the Reds in the World Series two years and change before I was born, on this date, yet the iconic hand-waving dinger that should have won it all for the Sox is a treat every time I see it. So is this picture of Fisk giving the Yankees dugout the finger during the 1999 ALCS:

That is the good stuff. Also the good stuff? Fried dough, the kind you get at carnivals, but at home!

There is a dish called “pasta fritta” that is not what we’re about to discuss. It’s a pasta omelette, more or less. This is another dish called “pasta fritta,” which is a lot like this one, but my mother’s recipe. My mom grew up in Chicago and has that delightful mix of…