Smorgasbord Or Smorrebrod (Denmark)

• 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)

1. Butter each slice of bread you want to use then proceed with ingredients for any one of the options below:.
2. Salami and tomato - cover the bread with slices of salami. Add slices of tomato and some onion rings.
3. 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.
4. Blue cheese and lettuce - cover the bread with lettuce and thin slices of blue cheese. Sprinkle cress on top.
5. 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.
6. Smoked salmon and egg - cover the bread with slices of hard-boiled egg and smoked salmon. Sprinkle it with chopped dill.
7. Lettuce, egg and herring - lay slices of hard-boiled egg and fillet of pickled herring on the bread. Sprinkle it with cress.
8. Garnishes:.
9. 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.
10. Make thin cuts along the length of a gherkin, cutting almost to the end. Then, spread the slices out like a fan.

head lettuce, bread, butter, shrimp, tomatoes, red onion, salami, blue cheese, havarti cheese, eggs, salmon, gravlax, black pepper, lemon, dill, garden cress

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/smorgasbord-or-smorrebrod-denmark-423442 (may not work)