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Apple and Blueberry Cobbler

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,692 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6-8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and butter a 9-inch (23 cm) baking dish using some of the butter.

  2. Peel, core and slice the Bramley apples. Put them in a saucepan with a splash of water, cover and cook gently for about 10 minutes until just softened, then spread them in the dish and scatter the blueberries over.

  3. Beat the softened unsalted butter and caster sugar together until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time.

  4. Fold the ground almonds into the butter mixture until evenly combined.

  5. Spread the almond batter evenly over the apples and blueberries. Scatter the almonds over the top.

  6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until golden and set. The centre should reach 160°F (71°C) on a probe thermometer.

  7. Cool for 15 minutes before serving warm.

By bbcfood. 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. Apple + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Butter + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

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

  3. Butter + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Apple + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16,440 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Apple and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 16,440 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 almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, butter, sugar, egg):

  1. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Cocoaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peasabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, butter, sugar, egg. 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).