Setting text in a tabular

Question

I want to make a long table (over all the page), at the moment i am using tabular for it, because everything in it is text.

How can i make a line with text in my tabular environment? It shall be for a recipe, between the ingredients there is sometime a text.

Right now i have something like

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
\[
\begin{tabular}{rl}
60 & ab\\
   & some text here \\
   & even more text\\
40 & bc \\
\end{tabular}
\]
\end{document} 

I would prefer a formatting like

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
60 &\ ab
\intertext{some text and even more text here}
40 &\ bc\\
\end{align*}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Using \multicolumn and the array package, one way to achieve what you want is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{rl}
60 & ab\\  
\multicolumn{2}{p{1cm}}{some text and even more text here some text and even more text here some text and even more text here}\\
40 & bc
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

You can change the value 1cm to what works better to you.