If grandma knew ... taking up old recipes

This evening I was thinking: "What to cook?" I haven't been shopping for quite some while and so there's only basic stuff at home. So I looked in the fridge, but cheese and such stuff just didn't attract me, nor did the tomatoes (pumarlolille) or noodles with whatever sauce. I looked at what was there and saw rice, apples, milk ... and then one of those dishes my grandma frequently made came into mind: Apfelreis (rice with apples). So I took the old family cook book (from 1927 ... still written in this old German style letters - nobody may touch it besides me ... I am really jealous about it). And I looked for the recipe. It was there, but it was different from how I remember my grandma did things. It described the recipe made with only water, but I well remember my grandma used milk and water and so I just adapted what I wrote to what I remember. When my mom went away from Coburg (my grandparents lived in Rodach and I grew up with them) I never ate that rice again. High time to eat it again, right?. So I cut my apples in pieces weighed the stuff and then cooked it. And it might sound strange: but I did things automatically, just as if I always did it, probably because I had seen my grandma cooking this rice with apples so many times. And another particularity came up: my mom never used cane sugar (is this the correct term?) but I remember that the sugar my grandma put on the apple rice when it was on the plate was brown. So she used in everyday cooking what we try to teach people to use. Well yes, if grandma knew that today my twins got their first apple rice probably her reaction would be: well, at least she larnt something useful :-)