Ann Lander's Pound Cake

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

Cream margarine 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 a little ginger ale. Continue adding flour, alternating with ginger ale, until all ingredients are used. Beating can be done by hand or with electric mixer until batter is smooth.

Pour batter into two greased and floured 9 x 5-inch loaf pans or one greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.*

Bake in a preheated 275 degrees oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until knife or cake tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean and cake has begun to shrink from sides of pan. Let cool in pan.

*Cooking time for tube pan is slightly longer.