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Blueberry Jam

Blueberry jam with a kick!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Blueberry Jam

Why it works: Anise and nutmeg share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 46 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Blueberry Jam

Serves 20
Prep5 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

157Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 8 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pectinnot in our table0
Anisenot in our table0
Cidernot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Anise + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Anise + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Nutmeg + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23,364 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nutmeg, lemon, cider, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nutmeg, lemon, cider, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.