To make egg sandwich, mash eggs with chopped butter and 1 tbsp mayonnaise, and season with salt and pepper. Spread 4 slices of pumpernickel with the remaining 2 tbsp mayonnaise. Top each with egg salad and dill, and season with pepper.
To make rollmop sandwich, butter 4 slices of pumpernickel, top each with half a rollmop, season with pepper and top with parsley.
To make gravad lax sandwich, spread the remaining 4 slices of pumpernickel with sour cream. Top each with a slice of gravad lax, squeeze over lemon, season and top with red onion. Serve sandwiches on a platter.
* Pumpernickel bread, from delis and selected supermarkets, is a type of rye bread.
* Rollmops, from selected supermarkets and delis, is a pickled herring that is rolled up, often around sliced onion.
* Gravad lax (also known as gravalax, and gravad laks in Danish), is Scandinavian dill-cured salmon. It is from selected delis and Ikea.
DRINK Aalborg Taffel Akvavit, Denmark ($40, 700ml)
Photography by Brett Stevens.