Philpy Bread

Philpy, a rice bread unique to the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, can be traced back to eighteenth-century plantation culture and is a first cousin to cornbread and johnnycakes. I know nothing about the origins of the name. Recipes today are found in only the most obscure regional cookbooks, and I became familiar with the bread only when my friend “Hoppin’” John Taylor (the major spokesman for Low