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Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

A light, fluffy ice cream pie made with store-bought blueberry ice cream, served on a gluten-free graham cracker pie crust and topped with a homemade blueberry sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

Why it works: Blueberry and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 540 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

Serves 10
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

313Calories
4 gProtein
13 gFat
49 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pie Crustnot 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. Blueberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Blueberry + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cream + blueberrytop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, blueberry, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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