What to do with a jar of italian sliced lemons in syrup?

[lisbapalea]

My Mum bought me a jar of sliced lemons in a vanilla syrup when she went to Italy (quite a while back but I am sure they're fine!).

I haven't even opened the jar as I don't really know what to do with them! I think my Mum thought they would be the same as moroccan preserved lemons to use in tagines, but they're obviously nothing like those.

Any ideas of how I could use them?

Wash the syrup off and put them in your gin?

put them on the top of a lemon drizzle cake, or in a lemon meringue pie. with ice cream.

That's a great idea abominable! I may well just do that if there are no suggestions for some kind of lemony cake pudding thing!

I am sure gin is less calorific than cake anyway.... isn't it??

Yes, gin is very low in calories and carbs and contains fruit (lemon/lime). It's a health drink really. Bit like those vile wheatgrass juice things only with better side effects

I like that. Might start drinking gin every morning instead of orange juice, which is clearly too high in carbs from all that nasty fructose.

I have this

The socially acceptable way to have gin for breakfast.

Sussex Pond Pudding?

I think whizz them up for ice cream or sorbet. Eat with prosecco poured over.

I'm back again.... Was thinking about whizzing the sliced vanilla lemons up with mascarpone and cream and using the mix to make a lemony pavlova - I can top with raspberries and toasted flaked almonds. Do you think that could work?

Have friends over for dinner on Saturday but we're not doing anything fancy - just making home made pizzas, so I need a non-stodgy pudding, so I thought this could work.

Does pizza then lemony pavlova make culinary sense?