Nonna Teresa Petruccelli-Formato’s Savory Fritters with Cinnamon and Cloves

The shape of piccialatiegli resembles a pretzel, and once the dough hits the hot oil, its unmistakable aroma fills Nonna Teresa’s kitchen in Queens, New York. Nonna Teresa adopted her Neapolitan mother-in-law’s tradition of making these savory fritters on Christmas Eve when she married over forty years ago. “When my mother-in-law was alive, she would be rolling the dough and someone else would fry them, and we could never make enough because everyone