In the end, I didn't feel like making pie, so I turned to Dorie Greenspan and her friend Marie-Hélène's Apple Cake.
No, no, that's not my photo - it's from her cookbook "Around My French Table" and its listing on amazon.com, where you can find the recipe if you just scroll down.
I doubled up the recipe because all these apples need dealing with, I added some lemon and orange zest to the apple bits, and I left out the rum because I didn't have any.
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