Yellow came from butternut tree bark, and red from the roots of the madder herb. Flax produced linen, and forest products were used to dye the cloth. The whiskey was often mixed with spices, milk, and sugar to improve the taste.Ĭlothing was homemade. Since water was sometimes impure, all members of the family drank milk and whiskey, which was made from corn, rye, wheat, and barley. Wild turkeys roamed everywhere and were ripe for the picking. The Middle Colonies were full of fish, oysters and lobsters. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherries. Vegetables were used to make soups and stews. ![]() Johnny cake, bread made with cornmeal, was also popular. Many ate a form of pudding called cornmeal mush every day of the year. ![]() Homes in the country were made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.Ĭorn was one of the main foods eaten in the colonies. Many people had their shops and homes in the same building. The Dutch built houses that were two-and-a-half to three stories high with steep roofs. There were many brick buildings in the Middle Colonies, due to the amount of clay along the riverbanks. Shorter winters meant that they could grow a larger variety of crops-maize, wheat, rye, potatoes, peas, and flax In the Middle Colonies, the soil was soft and pliable, and the area became known as the “breadbasket” of the thirteen colonies, because of their large grain export. The Middle Colonies had more agriculture than the New England Colonies, where the soil was rocky and infertile, making farming very difficult. African Americans and the indigenous Indians, with religious traditions of their own, added further variety to the Middle Colonies. Small congregations of Dutch Mennonites, French Huguenots, German Baptists, and Portuguese Jews joined larger established congregations of Dutch Reformed, Lutherans, Quakers, and Anglicans to create a unique religious society. The Middle Colonies had the highest ratio of churches to population of the three sections of colonial America. In this atmosphere of religious tolerance, New Netherland and New Amsterdam became the commercial center of the eastern North American colonies. ![]() The Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the thirteen original colonies because of the influence of their Polish, English, Dutch, French and German origins.
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