I found a blueberry lavender almond milk and a blueberry extract, so I was eager to take them for a spin in my ice cream maker.

Blueberry lavender has such a cottagecore vibe to it that I knew I needed something with similar vibes to pair with it. Enter “Pride & Prejudice.”

This vegan, gluten-free blueberry lavender ice cream recipe makes 2 pints or 4-6 “servings.”

Ingredients
1.5 cups blueberry lavender almond milk
1.5 cups plant cream or vegan lavender creamer
0.25 cups sugar
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
2 teaspoons blueberry extract
0.25 cups blueberries, frozen (optional)

Instructions
Combine all of the ingredients except the frozen blueberries in a blender and pulse until they’re evenly mixed. If you can’t find blueberry lavender almond milk (trust me, I was just as surprised as you are to find out it exists), you can use regular unsweetened almond milk. (Get more of my ice cream 101 tips here.)

What happens next depends on your ice cream maker. If you have a more standard one, you’ll pull your chilled (for 24 hours) bowl out and make the ice cream.

If you have one like mine, you pour the mixture into two pints then freeze them for 24 hours. If you have fresh blueberries for the mix-in step, you should also freeze them about 24 hours before you make your ice cream.

After that time, you put the pint into your ice cream maker on the ice cream setting and let it do its magic.

For the extra burst of blueberry, add the frozen blueberries in there at the end of a normal ice cream maker’s cycle or using the mix-in setting if you have one like mine.

Serve and enjoy with “Pride & Prejudice!”

The Easy Route
This may be as easy as this one gets for homemade ice cream. If you have a hook-up with premade vegan blueberry lavender ice cream, please do share where you find it in the comments.

The Pairing
There are many filmed iterations of Jane Austen’s classic “Pride and Prejudice,” both on the small screen and the big screen. From more faithful adaptations to more abstract takes, you can’t really go wrong with any of them. I even did another take during the Summer of Scoops with my “Fire Island” pairing.

Today, I’m pairing this ice cream with the 2005 film adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” and I’m sure I will have a pairing with the 1995 miniseries in the future.

The film, like most adaptations of this beloved novel, follows Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters and their parents on the sometimes comedic, sometimes dramatic, sometimes utterly romantic journey to see the girls find proper husbands.

I love this version because it is probably the one I have seen the most. I had a friend in college who was absolutely obsessed, and we watched her DVD often.

As a fan of the book, too, I find Keira Knightley’s portrayal of Elizabeth closest to what I pictured in my head. She is simple and subtle in her looks and dress, but by no means a shrinking violet.

And the visual aspects of this film complement her performance, from simple costuming and hair to stunning cinematography, including some truly artsy shots and sequences for the film nerds. Since I saw this for the first dozen times while I was studying film, I found the cinematography and editing to be particularly captivating.

Opposite Ms. Bennet is Mr. Darcy, played with the perfect amount of restraint by Matthew Macfadyen. The two meet when Elizabeth’s eldest sister, Jane (Rosamund Pike), hits it off with Darcy’s friend Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods).

One of the main reasons I haven’t watched the hit show “Succession” is because I don’t want my vision of Macfadyen as Darcy to be obscured by his decidedly different character in that series. (Although it did chip away a little with his appearance in this year’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.”)

The supporting cast in “Pride & Prejudice” are all simply divine, including Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet and the gaggle of girls that play the sisters. Pike gets her career off to a brilliant start as the sweet and sensitive Jane, the one and only Jena Malone plays the one and only Lydia as messy as can be, a young Carey Mulligan hits all the right notes as the jealous and silly Kitty, and, last but not least, Talulah Riley pulls off the extreme shyness of Mary in a couple of pivotal scenes.

Donald Sutherland is perfect as Mr. Bennet, the girls’ father. There is a scene in this adaptation where he’s called to cry tears of joy, and his delivery is so tender and realistic that it will for sure make you tear up a bit.

On top of the Bennets and Darcy, Wells brings both the naïveté and sincerity of Bingley to life, while Kelly Reilly makes a name for herself as his conniving, judgmental sister, Caroline. Tom Hollander is wonderful as the bumbling Mr. Collins, while Dame Judi Dench makes her presence known in a couple key scenes as Darcy’s domineering aunt, Lady Catherine.

I rewatched “Pride & Prejudice” for probably the 30th time or so this summer (in remembrance of Sutherland), and it absolutely holds up as one of the all-time greatest literary adaptations.

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