Legend has it that Sutarfeni was first created in the royal kitchens of the Rajput kingdom, where skilled chefs experimented with various ingredients to create a unique and indulgent dessert fit for royalty.
The earliest recognizable recipe for a cookie is Ciambella de Monaco from Libro de Cucina, 1390. Ciambelli were made from only flour, sugar, and lots of eggs because Medieval cooks needed to preserve foods when they were plentiful, so they made dried cakes from eggs that could be saved for up to a year without spoiling.
Strudel is an English loanword from German. The word derives from the German word Strudel, which in Middle High German literally means "whirlpool" or "eddy".
In historic records, it is said that honey cake was baked as early as the Medieval age. However, most associate it with Russian (Medovik), Middle Eastern or Jewish traditional food. Some say it originated as we know it today through Italy in the 12th century.
The first documented instance of the figure-shaped gingerbread man was at the court of Elizabeth I of England in the 16th century. She had the gingerbread figures made and presented in the likeness of some of her important guests.
Cookies came to America through the Dutch in New Amsterdam in the late 1620s. The Dutch word "koekje" was Anglicized to "cookie" or cooky.
The Industrial Revolution in Britain and the consumers it created saw cookies (biscuits) become products for the masses, and firms such as Huntley & Palmers (formed in 1822), McVitie's (formed in 1830) and Carr's (formed in 1831) were all established.
They adjusted the recipe to their country’s traditions by increasing the amount of fat and adding extra eggs in order to ensure it lived up to the Danes.’ standard They named it Wienerbrød and kept serving it at every bakery in Denmark.
With global travel becoming widespread at that time, cookies made a natural travel companion, a modernized equivalent of the travel cakes used throughout history. One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well and became known on every continent by similar names, was the jumble, a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water.