Yes - even better than it looks.

I'd been thinking about this for a few days and the idea kept picking away at me and I thought "sod it" ........ off to the kitchen. I used streaky bacon and then added the rendered pork fat with the lovely bacon to the loaf instead of butter or olive oil and then a load of grated mature cheddar. So there were surface bits of intensely flavoured bacon and cheese as well as all through the loaf. It was a sort of meal in a loaf. I had the second one last night.

Good luck with the baked beans ...... but if you liked my loaf you must start (if you don't already) to make bread! It is so easy and such a pleasure.