Rising stars shine at 'Dough' school

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Rising stars shine at 'Dough' school

DON'T worry, that haze lying over the West End of Glasgow wasn't smog, it was a miasma of magical cooking smells emerging from the West of Scotland College of Domestic Science.

Affectionately known as the 'Dough' school, the Park Drive institution taught generations of young women how to cook and bake.

In 1910, Ella Glaister, the then principal of the college, was responsible for the publication of the Glasgow Cookery Book, which can still be found in hundreds of Scottish kitchens.

Built in 1913, the building didn't have time to become home for its aspiring chefs before it was requisitioned by the Red Cross to serve as a hospital for the duration of the First World War.

Later renamed the Queen's College, the school is today part of Glasgow Caledonian University.

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