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Florence White (1932) remarked that huffkins (hufkins or uffkins) were particularly associated with east Kent. She described them as ‘thick flat oval cakes of light bread with a hole in the middle’. They have been known since at least 1790. Joseph Wright (1896-1905) cites a quotation from this date. A contributor to Notes & Queries (1869) expresses it well: ‘Most people know what muffins and crumpets are, but in East Kent … the former are known as uffkins.’ Manufacture seems to have declined greatly since World War II; in 1978 David Mabey stated that huffkins had all but disappeared. David Hopper, whose family have been bakers in north-east Kent for several generations, bears this out, but affirms they are still seen occasionally.