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My grandmother's 7 Up cake is a mellower cousin to the lemon pound cake, and comes from a long tradition of Southern cakes made with soda/pop as a leavening agent. The cake doesn't taste like 7 Up, but makes something new and familiar all at once. It's adapted from her recipe.
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<br />I recently found that the cake made a cameo in the 2008 film The Secret Life of Bees: according to the legend, the boy who ate the cake would be compelled to kiss the girl who baked it. I can't personally vouch for that magical effect—but maybe you can?
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<br />Notes: Make sure you use a big loaf pan (9x5x3) for this recipe, and or make sure you use very well-greased parchment paper with long overhangs on each side.

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