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Best Lactose Free Blueberry Muffins

"You won't miss the dairy in these tangy blueberry muffins! They have great flavor and a moist texture that produces muffins that no one will believe came from a dairy-free recipe. Be sure to check the label on your margarine for milk solids. Some margarines will contain some milk product."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 35,031 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

18 muffins
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, soy (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 (177°C) and line 18 muffin cups with paper liners.

  2. In a large bowl, cream the margarine and 1 1/4 cups white sugar until light and fluffy.

  3. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract and lime juice.

  4. In another bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together.

  5. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture in alternating batches with the soy milk, mixing just until combined.

  6. Gently toss the blueberries with a spoonful of the flour mixture, then fold them into the batter.

  7. Divide the batter among the liners, filling each about three-quarters full. Sprinkle the tops with the 1 tablespoon sugar.

  8. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean and the eggs are set.

  9. Cool the muffins in the pan for 5 minutes, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

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

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

  2. Flour + soy milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Soy milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Egg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together18,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, flour, soy milk, vanilla):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Bananabetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, flour, soy milk, vanilla. 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).