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Sweet Cheese-Stuffed Blintzes with Honeyed Blueberries

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By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and cream cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 479 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

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Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cheese + cream cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together479 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, egg, flour, sugar, butter, cheese, cream cheese):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, flour, sugar, butter, cheese, cream cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).