My mom always did that back in the day, when you couldn't reliably get ginger in the grocery, and she used dry sherry in place of shaoshing wine that you just couldn't get at all.

But I don't think it would go all that well with most Indian recipes, which is where I typically use mass quantities of ginger.

It sounds kind of odd in sweet potato casserole and ginger snaps too, come to think of it.