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Blueberry and Lavender Cobbler with Cornmeal and Vanilla Bean Biscuits

Perfect summer dessert! Blueberries and lavender together are heavenly.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Blueberry and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 696 recipes mention both. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook55 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Blueberry + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Blueberry + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (blueberry, lavender, sugar, butter, vanilla, biscuit, cream):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against blueberry, lavender, sugar, butter, vanilla, biscuit, cream. 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).