CONE FILTER COFFEE

Sloes getting close to being ripe enough to pick, must go out and get some gin if we are to have 'Sloe Gin' ready for Christmas.

There seem to be plenty around this year the branches are weighed down with fruit, and it is early this year.

For the uninitiated, sloes are the fruit of the blackthorn and make a delicious drink ideal at Christmas.
If you have never picked sloes before, take care, the clue is in the name of the plant "Blackthorn", some can have some very sharp thorns.

Someone is bound to ask how you make Sloe Gin, so here is the recipe we used in the family for years.

Half fill a 1 litre screw top jar with sloes that have been washed and any sub-standard fruit removed. Prick all the fruits with a sharp fork or similar implement to break the skin and help the juice to escape, add 125g (4oz) of castor sugar and fill the jar to the top with gin {the cheap brands work fine} screw the top on and shake well, place the jars in a cool dark place. Shake daily until all the sugar has dissolved and the liquid has taken on a dark colour. Leave in the jars for two to three months, shaking regularly, when ready run the liquid through a filter and bottle, preferably in dark glass bottles to help keep the colour, I have kept a few Bailey's bottles to use. A coffee filter paper in a funnel works well. I usually leave mine until a couple of days before Christmas before I filter it.

Then all that is left is to enjoy it, either on its own, or mixed with lemonade.

A ubiquitous object stretched across different attitudes, funneled and filtered through different perspectives, is still nothing more than a ubiquitous object.

Or: Were they mine to give, I would seat you all, not just the pregnant women and the silver foxes. Better yet, why don't we stand together?

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Marketa Sivek needed this drawing as well. Pretty fucking cool of her to be so intrigued by this. She told me she was looking at these drawings all weekend (during the 2011 "Coyote" show in the Flat Iron) and that they had consistently been giving her goose bumps.

What more could you ask for?

Marker on paper.
2011