Fusilli alla Molisana (Italian Molise Fusilli) Fusilli alla Molisana is a pasta defined by a piece of iron. The dough is only hard wheat semolina and water, but each piece is rolled by hand around a thin square sectioned rod into a hollow spiral, and no machine has produced the same shape. The rod is called a ferretto, and in Molise it was often a length taken from an umbrella frame, filed smooth and kept in a drawer for forty years. What goes over them is a mixed meat ragu o