Recipe for cooking baked lasagna

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Baked Lasagna

Sauce
3 lb. ripe tomatoes, chopped
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 Tbsp. chopped parsley
3 Tbsp. tomato pure
1 lrg. onion, peeled and chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped

Put all the ingredients into a lrg. cooking pot. Cover and simmer for about 1 hr.. Pass through a sieve; return to the pot, and season to your satisfaction. Continue to simmer until sauce has thickened. Just before using this sauce, stir in 2 Tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil and 2 Tbsp. of butter.

Lasagna
3/4 to 1 lb. lasagna noodles
Butter
1/2 lb. mozzarella cheese
1/4 lb. Italian sausage or
    lean ground beef, coarsely chopped
2 hardboiled eggs, chopped
1 C. grated Parmesan cheese
1 C. ricotta or cottage cheese

Brown sausage or beef, then drain.

Boil lasagna noodles. Drain and put a layer in a well-buttered casserole dish. Add a layer of mozzarella cheese, then a layer of sausage or beef and a thin layer of hardboiled egg. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan and ricotta or cottage cheese. Moisten cheese with some of tomato sauce. Continue in layers, finishing with a good thick layer of grated Parmesan. Dot with butter and bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 min.

Serve with warm roll of garlic bread.