Friday Meals on Reels: Blazing Saddles.

Here’s the deal: throughout this year we’ll be looking at screengrabs from the first appearance of food in classic and new movies. And if you’re lucky and patient, maybe you’ll get a fun recipe to go along with it!

In the 1974 film Blazing Saddles, we see our first food at the 41-minute mark:

Of course, this image begins one of the movie’s most classic scenes, one that is still – and incomprehensibly – edited to previously unknown levels of unfunny when Blazing Saddles airs on cable television. There isn’t a lot of food in this film – pretty much just this scene and the “fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben” bit later – but Brooks certainly uses food scenes for maximum comic effect.

As promised, the wonderful and mind-bogglingly gorgeous Mrs. Burbanked tempts you with a recipe that would make Old Kirby the trail boss proud. Take a look at today’s accompaniment after the jump.

Today’s Friday Meals on Reels: Rock Ridge Hornswoggler Baked Beans

• 1 can (28 ounces) baked beans
• ½ pound thick bacon, cut into small pieces
• ¼ cup molasses
• 1 large chopped onion sautéed in bacon greese
• 1 tsp yellow mustard

Preheat oven to 400° F and pour beans into a 2-quart casserole dish. Place bacon and chopped onion in skillet and cook until bacon is mostly done. Transfer bacon and onion to casserole dish (a little extra bacon grease sure tastes good; I’d suggest sopping it up with a thick chunk of bread!). Mix with beans, molasses and mustard and bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Good vittles!