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Brown chopped meat and onions in a pan with a small amount of pure olive oil.
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Drain off fat.
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Mix in cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to meat in pan.
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Add finely minced garlic and cans of tomato sauce to meat and spices in pan.
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Simmer sauce for 10 minutes.
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Boil Ziti in large pasta pot until firm.
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Strain Ziti and let cool for 10 minutes.
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Add Ziti to large bowl.
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Add meat mixture and Parmesan cheese to ziti.
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Grease large lasagna baking pan 16x11x3inches.
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Pour meat, ziti, cheese mixture into baking pan.
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Make sure the mixture fills only half the height of the pan and the mixture is level.
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Use a wide spatula to gently press down the mixture in the pan so that it lays flat.
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Make the cream sauce as described below.
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Pour cream sauce over mixture in pan, covering the mix.
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Cover edges of pan with foil to prevent over baking.
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Bake in preheated 350degree oven for 45minutes to 1 hour until top is golden brown.
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Sauce.
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Combine 6 eggs and 1/2 quart milk in a bowl.
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Melt 1 stick of butter in 6qt sauce pan.
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With a mixer or fork mix 15 Tbsp flour to butter to melted butter.
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On low heat, mix in 1 cup of egg/milk mixture to sauce pan, stirring continuously or use a mixer on very low setting until smooth (no lumps).
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Slowly continue adding milk/egg mixture to sauce pan on low heat
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Add remaining 1/2 quart of milk to sauce pan on low heat.
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Leave on low heat stirring continuously until slightly thickened (should be the consistency of pancake batter).
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No need to cool.
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Add to meat mixture in baking pan.
