Our reproduction available here is based on the 18 cans that survived from the wreck of the Steamship Bertrand.  Sugar of Lemons was basically a can of sugar and a small phial of lemon juice concentrate. There were 6 small glass phials that survived.

One of the surviving cans has a lining of what appears to be onion skin. 

It is known that Preston’s Portable Lemonade was shipped to the South and the West during the Civil War by the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Our exclusive label closely matches the original from 1865 and makes a better Civil War era replica than the version of California Lemonade that dates to 1869.