Pennsylvania: Longacre’s Modern Dairy

Longacre’s Modern Dairy is a family owned and operated business in Barto, Pennsylvania. In 1920, John S. Longacre would wake up, milk his dairy cattle, and then deliver the milk to neighboring towns by a horse-drawn wagon. In the 1940s, the Longacres built a dairy on the corner of their farm and started to make their own ice cream. In 1996, they went organic. Today, the dairy on the corner of the farm is the Dairy Bar, which is where my Dad, brother, and I went to have a nice ice cream treat.

The taste of their ice cream is unlike any other I have tried and ranks very high in my book. It is rich and creamy (but not sickenly rich like Coldstone’s and fresher than store quality). Also, knowing that it is organic makes it taste even more delightful. On the wall there is a long list of flavors (probably over 30) that makes it incredibly hard to choose just one.I wanted to order the Garbage Sundae, a combination of 10 flavors and 10 toppings. Instead, I ordered the large cup of 3 flavors: Cocoanut Custard*, Banana, and Cake batter. Even though I am not a huge fan of cocoanut, I do love custard ice cream. The cocoanut custard is egg custard flavored ice cream with shredded cocoanut throughout. The banana ice cream is made with real bananas (helping me reach my recommend daily amount of fruit). My favorite was the cake batter. I could eat this flavor all day. It was sweeter than the other two flavors in my cup, for obvious reasons. Across the board, the flavors were fresh, creamy, and matched up to their flavor name perfectly. I highly recommend trying it out. Even if you are not in the mood for ice cream, I encourage buying your local milk here. The nonfat milk tastes richer and fresher than the milk you buy at the store and it’s organic!

*I know how to spell coconut. However, Longacre’s spells it “cocoanut.”

Longacre’s Modern Dairy

1445 Route 100
Barto, PA 19504

Get Directions(610) 845-7551