"Egg liqueur." A Dutch egg yolk and brandy liqueur, sweet, yellow and thick, served with a small spoon. This is used, with fizzy lemonade, to make a snowball. Its name is a shortened form of 'Lawyer's drink' - advocaatenborrel.

Egg sauce. This is a cold sauce for fish made with chopped eggs, capers, vinegar or lemon and clarified butter.

Danish custard. A sweet custard sauce similar to English custard and containing almonds. It may also, like English custard, be made with a thicker consistency and poured into a mould and set and served cold as a complement to smoked ell, smoked salmon and prawns (US: shrimp) in cold buffet lunches or open sandwiches. It is also commonly served with marinated halibut (US: turbot) as a much enjoyed starter in Denmark.

Egg and bacon

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Man on horseback. A type of pleasant edible mushroom of yellowish colour with which some cases of poisoning have been recorded. This is the 'true' ridderhat and is edible. Other ridderhats may give you stomach problems.