Pasta Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 (16 oz.) cans tomato juice
2 (6 oz.) cans tomato paste
4 cloves garlic (fresh)
large white onion
1 1/2 c. mushrooms
salt to taste
pepper to taste
butter or margarine
2 Tbsp. sugar
Parmesan cheese

Preparation

Combine paste and sauce in large saucepan or Dutch oven.
Add salt and pepper.
Slice and dice garlic, onion and mushrooms. Saute garlic in butter until golden brown; mix with sauce/paste. Heat until it bubbles.
Stir.
Saute onions in butter until limp; add to pot and stir.
Saute mushrooms until limp; add to pot and stir.
Reduce to simmer.
Simmer for 3 hours, stirring every 15 to 20 minutes.
After 2 1/2 hours, add sugar and blend.
Stir well. Sugar will blend flavors and kill the acid.