the ginger cookie recipe

i had lost this for a while, what with moving bunches and never unboxing all my books.
but i recently found the cookbook i wrote it in, in the margins next to the recipe i modified it from and a couple of people had been asking

so here's the ginger cookie recipe that people still ask about 2 decades later, that i used to have to make by the quadruple batch [20 dozen] when i took them to school because everyone wanted a handful