The Cow Crossing
OPEN on the weekends! 5pm-8:30pm. Stay up to date with seasonal hours with facebook. Ice-cream desserts of soft serve ice-cream, Hard dipped, milkshakes, floats & snowballs. ALSO Farm Fresh Cheeses (7 flavors) available for retail.
Abigail with Grace, a Brown Swiss heifer and inspiration behind the Fawn Farm Fresh cheese label.
Flavors
Cheddar
Smoked Cheddar
Chive & Onion Cheddar
Colby
Old Bay Colby
Hot Pepper Colby
Italian Colby
Sizes & Prices
1/2 lb block: $5.00
5 lb block: $30.00
New! The Cow Crossing
Soft Serve Ice-cream & Homemade Cheese • A Taste of Harford & York Counties
The heifer (young female cow) featured on our cheese label is one of their Brown Swiss. Her name is Grace and has been a pet of our daughter Abigail since she was a baby calf. Abby likes to take Grace for long walks — sometimes Grace takes Abby for walks.
How Our Cheese Is Made
Our cheese making process starts with milk, purchased from Fawn View Manor. Several thousand pounds of milk is picked up by a refrigerated truck and taken to a small family owned cheese processor. There, the milk is divided. Half goes to making a cheddar base and the remainder goes to making the Colby base.
The process for each base flavor is slightly different. For both, the first step is to separate the curds and whey. The whey is drained and then batches are broken out depending on what flavors are being made. After seasonings are added to the curds they are put in the hoop box and compressed to make a 40 pound block of cheese which will then age 60 days and then finally cut into the smaller blocks.
The cheeses are wrapped in plastic and the labels are added. Then, they’re ready for you to take home and enjoy!
