Third Space Bakery is a mother-daughter baking team specializing in handmade, small-batch baked goods from the United Kingdom and Ireland. We focus on traditional recipes made with real ingredients to provide not only a great tasting treat, but also a glimpse into what people of the past may have enjoyed. Check us out to find your new favorite treat and learn something along the way!
Our focus is on simple, timeless recipes made with fresh fruits and vegetables as well as locally sourced meats; traditional Scottish shortbread, British flapjacks, scones, biscuits, and more. We've also expanded our offerings to include pasties for lunch and small cakes and tarts for dessert. Whatever time of day you come by, there will be something for you to enjoy!
The simple shortbread has a rich history in Scotland. First made with bits of bread dough, it was replaced with butter and the new biscuits became a favorite of Mary Queen of Scots. However, the cost of the high fat butter made them a luxury enjoyed on special occasions. In Shetland, a shortbread is traditionally broken over the head of a bride entering her new home. "First footers," or the first person to enter a house on New Year's Day, are also given shortbread to mark the occasion.
Buttery shortbread in the traditional flavor from the Highlands
Buttery shortbread flavored with fresh lemon zest and raspberries.
It's back for summer! Buttery shortbread with caramelized onion, beef stock and gruyere cheese. A savory treat.
Originally made in 1910 and called "Creola", this favorite dunking biscuit from London was later named after the House of Bourbon Chocolate Company. A chocolate biscuit sandwiched with a chocolate cream filling.
A Scottish treat made with two shortbread biscuits, sandwiched with jam.
Originating from Scotland as a griddle cake, or bannock, scones became a tea time offering during Queen Victoria's reign. Cream tea, or tea and scones with clotted cream and jam, is a popular afternoon snack in Cornwall and Devon. But what is the proper way to eat a scone? In Devon, the cream is spread first with a thin layer of jam. In Cornwall, it's jam first and then a thick dollop of cream. We'll let you decide which way is best.
Classic, unflavored scone perfect for cream tea; absolutely decadent with clotted cream and your favorite preserves
Our traditional scone recipe filled with fresh rhubarb.
A savory scone filled with sundried tomatoes, basil and mozzarella cheese.
Introduced to the British by the Phoenicians around 500BC, clotted cream is a slightly sweet creamy butter made by cooking cream in a low oven and cooling quickly. We import our clotted cream from the Devon Cream Company, famous for their rich clotted cream for over 400 years. Much like a whipped butter, but much better!
What is a pasty and did we forget the "r"? A pasty (pronounced "past-ee") is a handheld meat pie originally made in Cornwall. Pasties were enjoyed by the elite in the 1300's, filled with venison, lamb and beef in thick gravy. Tin miners in Cornwall in the 1700's needed something they could eat with their hands on the job, so wives began making pasties with minced beef, turnip, onion and potatoes for a hearty handheld affordable meal. Wives would often carve their husbands' initials in the pasty
While wrapping meat in pastry has been done since the Roman times, it took the British to wrap sausage in a light French puff pastry. The sausage roll is a British classic and we make our using fresh ground pork spiced the Lancashire way. It's a British staple!
Irish cottage pie in a pasty, this has two layers inside - on the bottom, a spiced beef mixture with carrots, peas, onion, chili powder and garlic. On the top, a mashed potato mixture with leeks and cheddar cheese. Yum! We use locally sourced beef from Great Bay Farm in Greenland, NH
Filled with chicken breast meat, simmered in a spicy curry sauce with a splash of coconut milk, along with peas, carrots, and onions
Our vegetarian option pasty - potatoes fried in curry, cumin and garam masala and then simmered in a mild creamy curry sauce with peas, carrots, chick peas and spinach. Comes with optional Major Grey's chutney
Our latest addition to our line of pasties. A vegetarian option of chickpeas simmered in an italian tomato and parmesan cream sauce, with potatoes, spinach and mushrooms.
Our mini Victoria spongecake sandwiched with a buttery cream frosting and lemon curd or raspberry preserves.
Single serving strawberry rhubarb tarts.
If you love lemons you'll love lemon drizzle cake. Lemon sponge cake, soaked with lemon syrup and then drizzled with lemon icing. A full lemon in each mini cake!
A lemony melt in your mouth shortbread filled with a lemon cream filling.
Jane Austen loved apples and these apple filled treats were a favorite of hers. Puff pastry filled with a filling of apples and orange blossom water, drizzled with orange marmalade. It's said that Jane treasured these treats, keeping them locked in a cupboard, and Jane had the only key.
A British griddle bread meant to be slathered with butter or drizzled with honey. Try it both ways and decide which way tastes better!
Oh yes! We've brought our key lime tartlets back for summer. Key lime custard in a dark chocolate pastry and this year we're topping each one with an edible flower.
Meringue nests filled with lemon curd and topped with berries.
Often called morning rolls, a Bap is a large pillowy soft roll eaten for breakfast in Scotland.
Soft handmade white bread.
A crunchy puffed snack food flavored with pickled onion
Imported from the UK, the Wilkins family have been farming the land in Tiptree, Essex since 1757 and began making preserves in 1885. We offer single-serve Tiptree jams in strawberry, apricot, or raspberry
Scottish lemonade in traditional, raspberry, orange or lavender flavors
Imported sodas in cream soda, ginger beer, and dandelion and burdock flavors
Two flavors to choose from: original black tea or peach.

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8 Government Way, Somersworth NH 03878
Email: Olivia@thirdspacebakes.com Phone: 603-841-5021
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