Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   4      tablespoons   cooking oil
   1      small         onion -- finely chopped
  15 1/2  ounces        canned tomato sauce
   1 1/2  cups          water
     1/2  teaspoon      pepper
     1/2  teaspoon      red pepper -- optional
   1      pound         ground beef
   1      29 ounces ca  tomato puree
   1      6 ounces can  tomato paste
   1      teaspoon      salt
     1/2  teaspoon      oregano
   2      pounds        sausage {Italian links or country style}

Preparation:

Brown ground beef in 2 tablespoon hot oil in frying pan. When almost browned, add onion and continue browning until onion is tender. Pour meat and onion into 3 1/2 quart crockpot. Add puree, sauce, paste, water, salt, pepper and oregano and set dial on low setting. Cut 2 lbs. sausage into pieces and brown in remaining 2 tablespoons oil. When brown, place sausages in sauce in crockpot. Continue cooking for 12 hours. (If you like your sauce sweeter, you could add 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar to this.)