*One of Mary Myrick’s best recipes*

Ingredients:

• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. lemon extract
• 1 cup 7-UP, at room temperature

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease well and flour a 9″ tube (or Bundt) pan. Cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour, one cup at a time mixing after each addition. Add 7-UP and lemon extract and stir in. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake 1 hour and 15 mins. or until cake tests done. Cool in pan for 5-10 mins. before removing to rack to cool. Frost, if desired, or drizzle with a simple glaze flavored with a little lemon extract.

You can substitute any other lemon or lemon-lime flavored soft drink for the 7 -UP.