An early cheesecake recipe is even found in the first English cookbook written in 1390. From then on, cheesecake recipes were a staple in English cookbooks, cementing its place as a beloved dessert.

Bipradas Mukhopadhyay's 1904 cookbook was aimed at the new-age Bengali woman What can a 1904 cookbook - written in the Bengali language and filled with dessert recipes - tell us about colonialism ...