Ginger Cookies

So the back story to my ginger cookie recipe is that for awhile I was addicted to the ginger cookies that came out of the kitchen of Ginger n’ Bears -- a store that sold ginger products and teddy bears on Sussex. They were extremely moist, chewy, spicy and all crackly on top. And popular. You had to order the cookies in advance. The woman who owned the store would not share her recipe. Which was understandable. So I started trying to figure out the recipe in my kitchen. It got a bit obsessive. More butter in one batch. Freshly grated ginger in another. One less egg. I was giving away ginger cookies daily for two weeks. And at the same time, I was constantly at the Ginger n’ Bears store buying ginger cookies to compare mine with their’s. I got ginger cookie fatigue at batch #6. It’s kind of close to the Ginger n’ Bear recipe, but I think it’s a little bit dry. I haven't really made ginger cookies since then. And the Ginger n’ Bears store has since folded so I have only fuzzy memories of the perfect ginger cookie. Anyway, all this to say that someone brought in ginger cookies to work this week. And as I munched away at a ginger cookie, I slowly realized I knew this cookie. It was my ginger cookie, version 6. Some of the people I had given cookies away to had asked for the recipe afterwards. So it was kind of cool that my cookie had popped back into my life without me baking it. Now I'm thinking of trying for batch #7. I’ll attempt it for Tasha’s garage/bake sale in two weeks. The cookie recipe is at porcelainspoon2.blogspot.com