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Ingredients
- For the blueberries:
- 1 quart blueberries
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 T corn starch mixed with 1 T cold water
- zest of one lemon
- juice from one lemon
- For the crisp:
- 3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 t fine salt
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- For the whipped cream:
- 1 pint cold whipping cream
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 t vanilla
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