Book Club Kit / The help / In Theaters This August part tow

Ingredients:
 2 oz. Vanilla Vodka
 1 oz. Cointreau
 2 Dashes Lemon Juice
 1 Dash Simple Syrup
Directions:
 1. Mix all ingredients in an iced shaker for 10-seconds and strain over
 crushed ice in a lowball glass.
 2. Top with crushed ice.
For those of you who don’t want the alcohol, here’s a non-alcoholic alternative:
Ingredients:
 2 scoops (about 1/3 cup each) vanilla ice cream
 chilled ginger beer or ginger ale
 squeeze of fresh lime juice
 3 Tbs lightly sweetened whipped cream
 Lime slice, for garnish
Directions:
 1. Place ice cream in a tall 16-ounce glass. Fill with ginger beer.
 2. Add a squeeze of lime juice; stir.
 3. Top with whipped cream.
 4. Garnish with lime slice.
 5. Serve immediately with straws and a spoon.

Ingredients:
 2 oz apple brandy
 1/2 tsp powdered sugar
 juice of 1/2 lemons
 1/2 slice lemon
 1 cherry
Directions:
 1. Shake apple brandy, powdered sugar, and juice of lemon with ice
 and strain into a whiskey sour glass.
 2. Decorate with a half-slice of lemon.
 3. Top with the cherry, and serve.
For those of you who don’t want the alcohol, here’s a non-alcoholic alternative:
Ingredients:
 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
 1/2 oz grenadine syrup
 1/2 oz simple syrup
 Sprite® soda
 Seltzer
 ½ slice lemon
Directions:
 1. Stir the lemon juice, grenadine and simple syrup together
 in a wine glass.
 2. Add ice, top with equal parts Sprite and soda water.
 3. Garnish with lemon wedge and serve.

Ingredients:
 1 oz. Bourbon
 1 oz. Rum, light
 1 oz. Schnapps, peach
 1 oz. Triple Sec
 1 oz. Vodka
 1 oz. Yukon Jack
 1/2 oz. Grenadine
Directions:
 1. You'd better be using a large hurricane glass for this one.
 2. Put everything into a shaker half-full of ice and shake.
 3. Pour into hurricane glass.
 4. Garnish with a wedge of orange and/or a cherry.
For those of you who don’t want the alcohol, here’s a non-alcoholic alternative:
Ingredients:
 2 1/2 oz non-alcoholic amoretto substitute
 2 oz cherry syrup
 4 oz orange juice
 4 oz Sprite® soda
 ice
Directions:
 Blend all ingredients together.

The Guide:
Great discussions are sparked by compelling questions. To
keep your book club members engaged, prepare a list of
questions based on the novel and movie. Here are a few
examples:
 1. What do you think is the main underlying theme of
 The Help – friendship, courage, finding your voice,
 something else altogether?
 2. Who is your favorite character? Why?
 3. What do you think motivated Hilly? On the one
 hand she’s so unpleasant to Aibileen, Minny and
 Skeeter but she’s also a wonderful mother. Do you
 think you can be a good mother and a deeply
 flawed person?
 4. Like Hilly, Skeeter's mother is deeply flawed but also
 sympathetic. She cares for her daughter and she
 also has very real feelings of affection for
 Constantine. Yet the ultimatum she gives to
 Constantine is untenable. She is very critical of
 Skeeter and seems to only care about marrying her
 off. Do you think Skeeter's mother is a sympathetic
 or unsympathetic character? Why?
 5. Which scene from the novel are you most excited
 to see brought to life in the movie? Why is that
 scene so important?