*One of Mary Myrick’s best recipes*

Ingredients:

• ½ cup shortening
• 2 sticks margarine
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3-½ cups cake flour*
• 7 ozs. Mountain Dew soda
• 1 tsp. almond extract
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

*You can substitute all-purpose flour by removing 2 Tbs. from each cup. You can also add 1 tsp. cornstarch for each cup if you wish.

All ingredients should be at room temperature. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a Bundt or tube pan. Cream margarine, shortening and sugar. Add eggs, beating after each addition, until fluffy. Add flour alternately with Mountain Dew. Beat in almond and vanilla flavorings. Pour into prepared pan and bake for about I hour and 10 mins., or until it tests done. Let stand a few minutes before removing from pan.