New Forest Shortbread

About

Tracy Thew has made shortbread for family and friends for more than 50 years and New Forest Shortbread has been delighting visitors to the New Forest National Park since 2015. With years of experience, our small female founded team of bakers is dedicated to the fine art of shortbread baking. What began as a personal pursuit has blossomed into a thriving local business where lovingly handcrafted batches of dough are baked and packed into boxes of award winning flavoured shortbread.  

Delicious Artisan Shortbread - Tracy's distinctive and customary approach to production ensures an intentional and wonderful array of shapes and colours, providing an exclusive artisan experience with every bite.  To keep the homemade taste and texture, each batch of Tracy's dough is very slightly different in weight and mixing time, so the shortbread vary enough to give a variety of shape and colour once baked.

Burley Rails Cottage is where New Forest Shortbread has been made since 2011.. The cottage was built in 1811 as a woodman's cottage.  The woodman was responsible for the fencing to keep the Commoner's animals out of the tree-growing nurseries called Inclosures or Enclosures.  There are many cottages of the same design within the New Forest, most remain Crown properties and are occupied by people who have chosen to live and work in the Forest such as Keepers, Agisters, Forestry workers and Crown employees.  Sometimes these jobs are a lifestyle choice as these people may also be the Commoners who own the livestock, horses, cattle and pigs - depastured on the open Forest.