Hucklejee Bread

DESCRIPTION: "My father and mother Are sick in bed, And I must learn how To make hucklejee bread. Then up with your feet... And that is the way to make hucklejee bread."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: mother mother disease food cook
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 125, "Hucklejee Bread" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _Dialect Notes_, the publication of The American Dialect Society, Volume IV, 1913-1917 (available on Google Books), p. 108, "Huckle Jee Bread" (1 text)
NOTES [49 words]: The second stanza in Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore opens "Then up with your feet And down with your head." I can't prove it, but I suspect that should be "...feet, and STAND ON your head."
The huckles, according to "Dialect Notes," are the hips, so the name describes the movement, not the bread.- RBW
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