Simple Lasagna with Hearty Tomato-Meat Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2002, America's Test Kitchen TV

Traditional lasagna takes the better part of a day to make. Could we get really good lasagna on the table in just 90 minutes?

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 2 hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Determined to formulate a really good 90-minute lasagna recipe, we came up with several shortcuts: We made a 12-minute tomato meat sauce by cooking onions, garlic, and meatloaf mixture (ground beef, pork, and veal) and then adding cream and...

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