The historic bake, from Kent, dates back to the time of the reign of Henry VIII. Huffkin is one of the oldest bread recipes in existence and it was created to feed the cherry pickers during the harvest period.

Speciality Breads of Margate, artisan bakers to the hospitality sector, are dedicated to producing bread and preserving traditional baking skills in their two bakeries.  

Over the last year Speciality Breads worked with Eckley Farms in Staplehurst so that the wheat used to make the stoneground flour for Huffkins, is actually grown and milled in Kent.

The recipe was originally created by a farmer's wife in Faversham who used her thumb to make an indentation at the top of the bake to hold a cherry of a spoon of cherry jam.

Although Speciality Breads has baked Huffkins for years, it previously imported flour over the county line.