This series consists of 4 files:

• Editions of the Glasgow Cookery Book, 1910-2009
• Correspondence regarding the Glasgow Cookery Book, 1950-1952
• Financial correspondence and accounts for the Glasgow Cookery Book, 1952-1972
• Correspondence regarding the Glasgow Cookery Book, 1972-1988

The first Glasgow Cookery Book was published in 1910 under the direction of Ella Glaister, first Principal of the College. The book was originally intended for use by students in their training and was compiled from recipes which had been perfected over the years by the College’s parent cookery schools. In time, the cookery book was made available for public sale and its popularity increased so much that the Glasgow Cookery Book became a household name. The first to thirteenth editions were published by N Adshead and Son, Glasgow. Further revised editions from 1951 onward were published by John Smith and Son (Glasgow) Ltd. These editions include a revised metric edition published for the College Centenary in 1975 under the name of the Queen’s College, Glasgow. In 2009 a centenary edition with a history of the book and the College was published by Waverley Books, Glasgow to celebrate 100 years of the publication of the book.

This file contains 1 scrapbook:

• Handwritten recipes, including some on Glasgow School of Cookery stationery from the 1880s
• Printed recipes from the Manchester School of Cookery
• Printed recipes from the Liverpool School of Cookery
• Recipe cuttings from publications

The recipes have been pasted or inserted loose into the pages and were used in teaching cookery classes at the Glasgow School of Cookery. At a later date the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science has added a label to the front cover titled "The Original Glasgow Cookery Book, 1875" and inside the front cover a printed sheet has been pasted titled "History of the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science Cookery Book" by Robert Clow, dated May 1972.