Cookie Week: Spicy Ginger Chews Recipe

No holiday cookie tray is complete in my house without a batch of Peg Bracken’s Elevator Lady Cookies from her classic “The I Hate to Cook For one, their awesome name comes with an equally awesome backstory – these spicy ginger cookies really did come from an Elevator Lady (back in the days when elevators were still operated by real live people) who, according to the book, sampled one of Peg’s spice cookies and remarked “My, I can sure make a better spice cooky than And let me tell you, Elevator Lady wasn’t talking no smack. They are the be-all and end-all of spice cookies, as far as I’m concerned – soft and chewy on the inside, and beautifully crackled on the outside. And even better, they’re so easy to make that they…