Super Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 sticks butter or margarine, room temperature
3 c. sugar
5 large eggs
3 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. lemon extract (or 1 tsp. grated lemon peel)
1/2 tsp. almond extract
7/8 c. ginger ale or similar soda

Preparation

Cream butter until light.
Cream in sugar and beat until fluffy.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Beat in 1 cup flour, then add extracts and ginger ale alternately until all used.
Beat until smooth.
Pour into two greased and floured loaf pans (9 x 5-inch) or one 10-inch tube pan.
Bake in preheated 275\u00b0 oven for about one hour and 45 minutes. (Baking time will be longer for the 10-inch pan.) Test for doneness with a toothpick.
Let cool in pan.