Smorgasbord Or Smorrebrod (Denmark) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 head lettuce, leaves washed and dried
1 loaf bread (dark rye preferred)
3 ounces butter, softened for spreading (or margarine)
6 ounces cooked shrimp (or small prawns)
2 small tomatoes, sliced thinly
1 small red onion, sliced into thin rings
6 ounces salami, thinly sliced
2 ounces blue cheese, sliced
2 ounces havarti cheese, sliced
2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
3 ounces smoked salmon, thinly sliced
3 ounces gravlax, sliced
2 ounces pickled herring
black pepper, to taste
1 lemon, sliced thinly (garnish)
2 gherkins (garnish)
dill, to taste (garnish)
2 tablespoons garden cress (or baby mustard cress, garnish)

Preparation

Butter each slice of bread you want to use then proceed with ingredients for any one of the options below:.
Salami and tomato - cover the bread with slices of salami. Add slices of tomato and some onion rings.
Prawns and lemon - put a lettuce leaf onto the bread. Spoon prawns on top and add some black pepper and a twisted slice of lemon.
Blue cheese and lettuce - cover the bread with lettuce and thin slices of blue cheese. Sprinkle cress on top.
Cheese and tomato - lay thin slices of Havarti cheese on the bread. Then, lay a row of sliced tomato along the middle. Add a gherkin garnish.
Smoked salmon and egg - cover the bread with slices of hard-boiled egg and smoked salmon. Sprinkle it with chopped dill.
Lettuce, egg and herring - lay slices of hard-boiled egg and fillet of pickled herring on the bread. Sprinkle it with cress.
Garnishes:.
Cut a slice of lemon in half. Make a cut in the middle of each half, then twist the ends so that the slice stands up.
Make thin cuts along the length of a gherkin, cutting almost to the end. Then, spread the slices out like a fan.